What did Marcus Tullius Cicero mean by: Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood. Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy Copy
There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.] Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Faith, Omnipotence, Possibility, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Open-mindedness, Resilience, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Consideration, Promise, Thought, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
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
Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.] Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Frugality, Revenue, Wealth, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Guilt, Impunity, Sin, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Ambition, Fools, Treason, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Acceptance, Foolishness, Grief, 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
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
