What did Marcus Tullius Cicero mean by: Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves. Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy Copy
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Friendship, Nature, Virtue, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Fear, God, Worship, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Community, Interconnectedness, Unity, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Failure, Growth, Learning, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Corruption, Integrity, Virtue, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Absence, Pain, Pleasure, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Hierarchy, Power, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
The more peculiarly his own a man’s character is, the better it fits him. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Individuality, Personality, Suitability, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
