Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
build house ornament owner precept
My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner
house dignity masters
The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.
strong cities house
But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?
house ancestry ancient
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
business house ornaments
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
book giving house
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
attack basis personal speech
We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech
consists decency giving justice
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
foolish hair less sorrow tear though
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
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life
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
experience instructed less men wise
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.