Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
children knowledge past
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
children knowledge born
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.
children knowledge born
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
family children ties
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.
children philosophical men
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
children doe
What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.
children forever ignorant
To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child
children father law
Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.
children past forever
To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.
children hate talent
I hate all children of precocious talent.
strong children men
It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.
children childhood foundation
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
children infancy-is history
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
memories children men
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?