All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. Marcus Tullius Cicero More Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero More Quotes From 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 love-you heart memories We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history. Marcus Tullius Cicero To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Marcus Tullius Cicero life-and-love philosophical children Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero philosophical failure mistake Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. Marcus Tullius Cicero greatest-love next People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it! Marcus Tullius Cicero gratitude support people To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? Marcus Tullius Cicero political ignorance children When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero philosophical abuse law Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. Marcus Tullius Cicero obscure hype intention Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. Marcus Tullius Cicero learning waiting mind Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Marcus Tullius Cicero silence positive art A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures? Marcus Tullius Cicero stupid dog boys A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys. Marcus Tullius Cicero joy men heaven I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory. Marcus Tullius Cicero opinion glory If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words. Marcus Tullius Cicero wish feelings thinking More laws, less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero liberty law justice The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. Marcus Tullius Cicero family love life It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. Marcus Tullius Cicero words-of-wisdom reflection character What society does to its children, so will its children do to society. Marcus Tullius Cicero doe children We should be as careful of our words as of our actions. Marcus Tullius Cicero our-actions our-words communication
