“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
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness... — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Cicero considera ca tot ce se intampla dupa o lunga asteptare e mai usor de suportat.” — Cristian Niculcea 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
“Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves -Cicero” — William Shakespeare 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 himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name (“the first rule in politics,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Days when I came to flower serenely in Lycée gardens long ago, and read my Apuleius keenly, but spared no glance for… — Alexander Pushkin 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 said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics… — Robert Harris 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
“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
“Cicero often asked me to perform small services for Milo during that campaign. For example, I went back through our files and… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Feeling he’d captured the throng, Trost decided to get literary. “Salus populi suprema lex esto.” She looked at me. “What the fuck… — Craig Johnson 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
“Throw that dreary man Cicero out of the window, and request the divine Virgil (with the utmost love and respect) to take… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens…inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of… — Anthony Everitt 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
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything… — Stacy Schiff 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
“At bottom, politics was a hullabaloo of equal and individual competitors who would only be guaranteed to cooperate for one cause: the… — Anthony Everitt 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
“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
“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
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then… — Robert Harris 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
![“I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. [Laughter and applause] If I still have time, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said, If it…” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b95/ronald-reagan-119_cicero_i-want-you-to-know-that-also-i-will-not_2339302.jpg)
