Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Interpretation
Teaching the next generation is one of the most important roles in society.
Cicero emphasizes the profound value of educators in shaping the future by imparting knowledge and wisdom to the younger generations. He suggests that there is no greater task than that of instructing those who will lead and contribute to society, highlighting the essential role of teachers in fostering progress and improvement within a community.
In practice
This quote could inspire educators during a graduation speech.
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.
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
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