106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
A community is like the ones who govern it.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Influence]
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Friends and Friendship]
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Speakers and Speaking]
A letter does not blush.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Letters]
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Courage]
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Manners]
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Will and Will Power]
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Books and Reading]
A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Youth]
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Pity]
Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Ability]
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Age and Aging]
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Pain]
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Mind]
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Character]
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Youth]
As you have sown so shall you reap.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Results]
Before beginning, plan carefully.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Planning]
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Brevity]
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Brevity]