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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Doe

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Ignorance, Political
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Life And Love, Philosophical
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thank You, Time, Children

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Forever, Knows

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Baby, Children, Men
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1993). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Pro Archiapoeta. Post reditum in senatu. Post reditum ad quirites. De domo sua.Deharuspicum responsis. Pro Plancio”

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Teaching, Science

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Mean, Forever

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Memories, Men
"Orator Ad M. Brutum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Hate, Talent

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Philosophical, Men

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Infancy Is, History

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Knowledge, Born

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Past, Forever
"Orator Ad M. Brutum" by Cicero, chapter XXXIV, section 120,

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 a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Strong, Children, Men
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Knowledge, Science

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Knowledge, Understanding
"De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXXIV), 55 BC.

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Childhood, Foundation
"Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 109-113,

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Forever, Ignorant

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Father, Law

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