- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was a Roman Senator and Consul, Historian, Constitutionalist, Political Theorist, Lawyer, and Philosopher.
- He is considered to be the most influential Roman individual in History and in modern Western Literature.
Cicero Quotes
- Hannibal ante Portus
- meaning ‘Hannibal before the gates’.
- Dum vita est spes est
- meaning ‘While there is life, there is hope’.
- In virtute sunt multi ascensus
- meaning ‘In excellence there are many degrees’.
- O tempora O mores
- meaning ‘Oh what times! Oh what customs!’ Cicero’s speech during the Catiline Conspiracy.
- Omnium rerum principia parva sunt
- meaning ‘The beginnings of all things are small’.
- Ut sementem feceris its metes
- meaning ‘As you sow, so shall you reap’.