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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Our country is wherever we are well off
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things
There are countless roads on all sides to the grave
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth
Let a man practise the profession he best knows
It is a proof of great talents to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority
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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