Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Honor

• There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Roots, Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.254

• Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Genius

• To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Genius, Spirit

• Genius is fostered by industry.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Genius, Industry

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