Quote

The freedom of poetic license.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
Jurist
Lawyer
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Dallas
Texas
Marcus Tullius Cicero
M. Tullii Ciceronis
Marcus Tullius -- Translations into French Cicero
License
Poetic
Poetry
Freedom

More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The life given us, by nature is short but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
Marcus Tullius Cicero