Quotes Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Philosophy is the true mother of science.
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
[Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
[Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]
Ability without honor is useless.
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
Our liberality should not exceed our ability.
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?
The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.
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.
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Generosity should never exceed ability.
