Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

• There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  "The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

• Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Justice

• Freedom is participation in power.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Democracy, Politics

• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Passion, Way

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

• A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Law, Politics

• Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Wisdom, Philosophy

• The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

• I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

• We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Understanding, Enjoy

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