Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
- Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
- We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
- In time of war the laws are silent.
- The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
- The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
- Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
- It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
- While there's life, there's hope.
- If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Best Quotes
- The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
- On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
- Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
- Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
- You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
- If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
- Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
- Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
- Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.