What did Marcus Tullius Cicero mean by: It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it. Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy Copy
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. Read explanation Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Desirability, Value, Wisdom, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Friendship, Unity, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Learning, Perspective, Wisdom, 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
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. Read explanation Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Afterlife, Perspective, Transition, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Blindness, Deception, Fortune, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Learning, Leisure, Study, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Persuasion, Self-love, Virtue, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
