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
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
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.
economy economy-and-economics great men realize revenue
Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is
approach fellow gods good men nearly
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men
approach giving health men nearly
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.
thinking men he-man
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
silly men age
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
men every-man
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
men long 50th-birthday
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]
men age weak-points
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
men dancing senses
No man in his senses will dance.
wise nature men
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
ignorance men perplexed
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
men age
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.