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
becoming behavior honorable
What is becoming in behavior is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming
honorable persons
It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
powerful men honorable-man
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
honorable
What is permissible is not always honorable.
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.
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He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.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.
cannot fortress money strong
There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it