What did Marcus Tullius Cicero mean by: No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy Copy
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. Read explanation Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Concealment, Fear, Hatred, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Disappointment, Performance, Pressure, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
I wonder that a soothsayer doesn’t laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Insight, Irony, Skepticism, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Abstention, Greed, Wealth, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Ethics, Pleasure, Temptation, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Crime, Intentions, Morality, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Law, Liberty, Power, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. Read explanation Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Luck, Reverence, Virtue, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. Read explanation Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I don’t need to be everywhere because my art pieces can talk for themselves. Jeppe Hein Artist · Denmark
