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
arms crown laurel praise yield
Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.
arms civic laurels
Let arms give place to civic robes, laurels to paeans.
war yield laurels
Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
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He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.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.
cannot fortress money strong
There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it