Quote #78
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
More from Cicero
- The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
- There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freed…
- There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
- The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laught…
- Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
- The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
- To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.