Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#everything #garden #library #need #you

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#libraries #library

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#humor #times-never-change #change

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#friendship

Laws are silent in times of war. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#human-rights #war #freedom

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#latin #ignorance

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#say #should #think

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

#life

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#parenting

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#learn #obstacle #often #teach #those