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Facts about Marcus Tullius CiceroSummaryMarcus Tullius Cicero was a famous Statesman from Rome, who lived between 106 BC and 43 BC.BiographyCicero belonged to the Roman knight stand and began his career as a lawyer (Roman law) and gained a reputation for daring to defend the Roman citizens who had been unjustly convicted under Sulla's purges.He was a declared supporter of the Roman republic, and made careers in the municipal department. He was quaestor in Sicily in 76 f.kr, praetor in Rome in 66 f.Kr and consul in 63 BC. As a consultant, he averted the Catiline conspiracy. During the first triumvirate, he had for a time to go into exile. After the pardon, he appeared again as a politician, but his influence was weakened. Following the assassination of Julius Caesar, he took part against Marcus Antonius. It cost him his life and was in the longer term, perhaps contributing to Antony's fall. Cicero was murdered during proskriptionerne year 43 BC, 63 years old. Cicero's rhetoric can be seen in 58 surviving political / legal speeches and writings as well as more than 800 letters. Cicero, who was eclectic, regarded as the father of classical Latin prose. Our collection contains 129 quotes who is written / told by Marcus, under the main topics: Age, Death, Faith, Food, Men. Related authors: Cicero, Julius Caesar Source / external links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiceroFamous quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero (129)   "As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind"
"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end"
"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system"
"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes"
"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"
"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body"
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself"
"As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved"
"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief"
"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another"
"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank"
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk"
"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?"
"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just"
"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again"
"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct"
"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free"
"The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless"
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live"
"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees"
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"
"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world"
"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal"
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment"
"If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live"
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors"
"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"
"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law"
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends"
"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable"
"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue"
"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long"
"Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered"
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started"
"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind"
"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow"
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words"
"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend"
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