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
behind certain quite
We're quite certain that is all behind them.
desire glory inspired keen man motivated
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory
buy changed entire name town
We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that publicity.
belief delightful err error lose men souls wish
If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error
prepare rather
Let us not go over the old ground, let us rather prepare for what is to come
himself self
He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.
folly prefer wisdom
I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
raise storm
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
fortune tests
The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends
athens law rome true
The law in Athens is true in Rome
aspire disgrace highest stop
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
directed good government ought receive trust
The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust
command conduct forbid function law natural whose
Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing