The good of the people is the greatest law.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about law, good, good luck, people
Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
170 quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero - roman statesman
Also known as: Cicero.
Also called: Cicerone.
Was born on 03 jan 0106.
Died on 07 dec 0043, at -63 years old.
Died on 07 dec 0043, at -63 years old.
Origin country: Italy
Biography: Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about instinct, experience, reason
A home without books is a body without soul.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about books, home, body, soul
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about character, man
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about problems
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.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about olderness, advice, absurd, age, old, end
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about doubt, pain
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about error, man
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about error, man
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...
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about water, character, fire, fire brigade, man
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.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about youth, old, olderness, rules, body, man, mind
