What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Topics: Education Quotes, Teachers And Teaching Quotes

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of...

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of...

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes...

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes...

To live is to think.

To live is to think.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase...

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase...

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is...

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is...

The law in Athens is true in Rome

The law in Athens is true in Rome

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man...

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man...

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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

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

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,...

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,...

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

The mind of each man is the man himself

The mind of each man is the man himself

In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to...

In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to...

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper...

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper...

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead...

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead...