Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Eyes
Eye
Place
Body
Like
Sentinels
Highest
Hold
More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The life given us, by nature is short but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thrift is of great revenue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Scurrility has no object in view but incivility if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is not a moment without some duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
Marcus Tullius Cicero