106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Marcus T. Cicero – [Sincerity]
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Confidence]
Empire and liberty.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Empire]
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Friends and Friendship]
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Age and Aging]
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Fear]
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Freedom]
Friends are proved by adversity.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Friends and Friendship]
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Friends and Friendship]
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Friends and Friendship]
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Fame]
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Gratitude]
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Speakers and Speaking]
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Habit]
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Congress]
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Hatred]
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Hatred]
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Critics and Criticism]
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Leisure]
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus T. Cicero – [Passion]
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