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
inspirational educational book
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
education teacher ignorance
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
education republic youth
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
education teacher letters
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
education knowledge knowing-who-you-are
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
fortune tests
The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends
experience injury knew running
The whole injury experience was so frustrating. I knew if I could get back I would never take running for granted,
born earlier events happened ignorant lifetime memory past stupidity unless woven
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?