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Marcus Tullius Cicero
(3 Jan 106 B.C. - 7 Dec 43 B.C.)
Roman philosopher and statesman who is noted for his exceptional skills in oratory, which began early with a career in law. He introduced Greek philosophy to ancient Rome through his treatises based on Plato, Aristotle, and others. Fifty-eight of his orations and more than nine hundred of his letters have survived, giving one of the clearest pictures of his personality of any Roman.
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Science Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero (4)
Cogitatio in vero exquirendo maxime versatur. Appetitus impellit ad agendum.
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
D. H. Barnes (Ed.) De Officiis ad Marcum Filium: Libri Tres (1814), 51.
Hominem ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando,
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Henry Thomas Riley, Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Proverbs, Maxims, and Mottos (1866), 152.
Opinionum commenta delet dies, naturae judicia confirmat
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
De Natura Deorum, II, ii, 5. In Samuel Johnson, W. Jackson Bate, The Selected Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler (1968),167
Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tusculanarum Disputationum Book 1. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations as revised and expanded by Kate Louise Roberts (1922), 691.
Quotes by others about Marcus Tullius Cicero (1)
He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.
Brief Lives (1680), edited by Oliver Lawson Dick (1949), 129.
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