Best quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opened up my eyes for Cicero quotes.. I like these.. 

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes." - Marcus Tullius Cicero


"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Marcus Tullius Cicero


"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." Marcus Tullius Cicero



"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - Marcus Tullius Cicero




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

6:40 “I’m really following a very key idea of the greatest lawyer of antiquity Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero is famous for saying “A man who doesn’t know what happened before he’s born goes through life like a child”. That is a very correct idea of Cicero and he’s right. To ridicule somebody so foolish as not to know what happened before he was born. But if you generalize Cicero as I think one should there all this other things that you should know in addition to history. And those other things are the big ideas and all the other disciplines. And it doesn’t help you just to know them enough so you can prattle them back on an exam and get an A. You have to learn these things in such a way that they are a mental lattice work in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. If you do that I solemnly promise you that one day you’ll be walking down the street and look to your right and left and you’ll think my heavenly days I’m now one of the few most competent people of my whole age cohort.” – Charlie Munger, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EMkanyz5Y

"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own." Marcus Tullius Cicero


"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend." Marcus Tullius Cicero



"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body." Marcus Tullius Cicero


"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." Marcus Tullius Cicero