Marcus Tullius Cicero Children Quotations

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

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

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

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

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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.

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?

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

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

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

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.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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

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.

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

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

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.