Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Animals

• Cuando nos enfrentamos a un lobo hambriento, no es prudente azuzar a la bestia, como Catón quiere que hagamos. Pero es igualmente imprudente imaginar que el animal que gruñe es un amigo y ofrecerle la mano, como hace Pompeyo". "¡Quizás quieras que trepemos a un árbol!

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Animal, Hands, History

• What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Beauty, Animal, Ugly

• The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Past, Men, Animal

• Every animal loves itself.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Animal, Animal Love

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.252

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