Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Rome
3 Jan -106 // 7 Dec -43
Politician/Orator/Philosopher
3 Jan -106 // 7 Dec -43
Politician/Orator/Philosopher
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability
Honor is the reward of virtue
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays