The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image