Quote

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
Jurist
Lawyer
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Dallas
Texas
Marcus Tullius Cicero
M. Tullii Ciceronis
Marcus Tullius -- Translations into French Cicero
Past
Commands
Character
Commanders
Must
Someday
Men
Command
Dutifully
Worthy
Obeys
Personality
Obeyed
Leadership
Efficiently
Others
Commander

More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Image
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero