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
cannot fortress money strong
There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it
cannot fortress holy money profane sanctuary storm strong
There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
great
It is a great thing to know our vices.
becoming behavior honorable
What is becoming in behavior is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming
consists happy life
We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
consists happy life
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
bad evil good hard suspect
It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
command conduct forbid function law natural whose
Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing
I am testis tempurum, lux veritatis, vita memorial, magistra vitae, nunita vetustatis. The Philosopher
broken gone
He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.
himself self
He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.
grow guided man whom
Give me a young man in whom there is some- thing of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.
again bites deeper endangered freedom suppressed
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered