Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Educational, Book

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thank You, Time, Children

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Giving, House

• A home without books is a body without soul.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Philosophical, Home

• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Writing, Men

• Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Book, Home

  "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero".

• He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Passion, Beer

• Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Beer, Light

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1831, Delphi Classics

• So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Holiday, Air

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

• In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Names, Philosopher

• The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Names, World

• This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Men

• Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Garden, Library

• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

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