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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about Time

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thank You, Time, Children

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Nature, Science

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Stupid, Journey

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Reality, Men

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Moral

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Time, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Melmoth (1820). “Essays on old age and friendship”, p.70

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Funny, Time, Men
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]”, p.239

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Grief, Doe
"Epistles (Letters)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IV, Chapter 5), 68-43 BC.

Time is the herald of truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Soul, Lasts
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1839). “The Orations”, p.261

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Nature, Philosophical

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Age, Youth
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.245

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Age, Doe

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Past, Years

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Thinking, Age

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Change, Time

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