Marcus Tullius Cicero Born Quotations

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! - O happy Rome, born when I was consul!

We are not born for ourselves alone.

We are born poets. we become orators.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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

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

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.