Marcus Tullius Cicero Famous Quotes
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children"
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
"Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy."
"When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
The spirit is the true self.
"While there's life, there's hope."
"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
A home without books is a body without soul.
". . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed...."
There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.
"It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
No Sane man will dance.
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
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity"
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Nothing quite new is perfect.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
"If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third."
There is no place more delightful than home.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotations
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again."
Og Mandino
"Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities."
John A Rassias
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
Ali ibnAbiTalib
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
Ralph Nader
"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over."
Arthur Schopenhauer
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo C Rosten
"Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out."
Billy Madison
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Miguel de Cervantes