Nature Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

— 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

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time?…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has inclined us to love men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero