"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Topic(s):
Men
More From Marcus Tullius Cicero
- "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."
- "What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
- "A man of courage is also full of faith."
More In Men
- "I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."― Leon Uris
- "People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- "A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says “I was beaten,” he does not say “My men were beaten”."― Antoine de Saint-Exupery