“Cicero considera ca tot ce se intampla dupa o lunga asteptare e mai usor de suportat.” — Cristian Niculcea Copy Share Image
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness... — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I would rather be an authority on myself than on Cicero.” — Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592 Copy Share Image
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“It is more important to have greatly extended the frontiers of the Roman spirit than the frontiers of the Roman empire. [Speaking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“In towering letters Cicero’s words were engraved over the library entrance. Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.” — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“He (Cicero) made Catiline and his conspiracy actually simple; the man himself had the courage to sit in front of him and… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown… — David Markson Copy Share Image
As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“This argument—“We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from… — Stephen P. Halbrook Copy Share Image
“No one can really claim to know politics properly until he has stayed up all night writing a speech for delivery the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Kant’s conception of dignity is indebted to Cicero and the Roman conception of dignitas, according to which dignity is an elevated position… — Oliver Sensen Copy Share Image
“And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like… — John Edward Williams Copy Share Image
“There is a story that Simonides was dining at the house of a wealthy nobleman named Scopas at Crannon in Thessaly, and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Yes, I think a lot happened here. This fountain in the wall. Pico and Lorenzo and Poliziano and the young Michelangelo. They… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“No one dances while he is sober. Unless he happens to be a lunatic. -Cicero” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“In time of war the law falls silent. —Marcus Tullius Cicero, 52 BC” — Frederic C. Rich Copy Share Image
Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an… — Hannah More Copy Share Image