Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Giving, House

• My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Business, House, Ornaments

• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Family, Children, Ties

• It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  House, Ancestry, Ancient

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, CXXXIX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 23-25, 44 B.C..

• The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  House, Dignity, Should

• But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Cities, House

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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