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Letter "M" » Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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«The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Education,
Learning,
Obstacles,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
obstacle, The Authority
«Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error»
«Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.»
«A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.»
«What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.»
«Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.»
«If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.»
«Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
arts, conversation
«A home without books is a body without soul.»
«The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.»
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