Skip to main content

A nation can survive its fools...

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Armed forces abroad are of lit...

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

I cannot find a faithful messa...

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer,' he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. 'How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Ill gotten gains will be ill s...

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

The purpose of education is to...

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

The avarice of the old: it's a...

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

For out of such an ungoverned ...

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 Cicero 1236 quotes

You might as well take the sun...

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Fire and water are not of more...

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

There are two ways to resolve ...

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Everyone has the obligation to...

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

The mind becomes accustomed to...

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

The gardener plants trees, not...

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

A youth of sensuality and inte...

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Every evil in the bud is easil...

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

How great an evil do you see t...

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

I have always been of the opin...

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

A dissolute and intemperate yo...

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Nothing is too absurd to be sa...

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Nothing troubles you for which...

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....