Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Interpretation
Humans have a deep desire to discover and understand the truth about the world.
In this quote, Cicero highlights the inherent curiosity and longing for truth that resides within us. He suggests that this desire is a fundamental aspect of being human, driving our pursuit of knowledge and understanding in a world filled with complexity and ambiguity.
In practice
This quote could be used in a philosophy class discussion about human nature.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
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.
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.
A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.
We must take the profit out of war.
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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