Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Use
Ages
Science
Former
Past
Remain
Must
Labor
Children
Child
Made
Age
Transacted
Always
Knowledge
Labors
World
Times
Infancy
More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing quite new is perfect.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do nothing twice over.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
Marcus Tullius Cicero
