What did Marcus Tullius Cicero mean by: It is foolish to pluck out one’s hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy Copy
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. Read explanation Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Forgiveness, Redemption, Regret, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Consensus, Unity, Value, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. Read explanation Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Interpretation, Significance, Understanding, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. Read explanation Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Greatness, Inspiration, Soul, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Memory, Pleasure, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pleasing, Teaching, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. Read explanation Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Decency, Justice, morality., 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Conviction, Influence, Public Opinion, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Jean Paul Writer · Germany
