Nature Quotes by 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

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

— 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

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal…

— 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

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

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

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the…

— 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

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

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

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

“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

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature abhors annihilation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero