Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero, page 8
170 quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero - roman statesman
Also known as: Cicero.
Also called: Cicerone.
Was born on 03 jan 0106.
Died on 07 dec 0043, at -63 years old.
Died on 07 dec 0043, at -63 years old.
Origin country: Italy
Biography: Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about silence
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about nature, man, time
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about events, memory, children, past, man
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about children
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about force, police
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about flowers, glory, fall
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about habits, virtue, reason, nature, mind
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about glory, contempt, praise, books, man
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about man
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.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about value, action, virtue, truth, life
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about happiness, mind, life
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about gifts, children, man
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about state, man
