Marcus Tullius

Famous quotes containing the words marcus tullius, marcus and/or tullius:

    Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
    —Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

    Who does not know history’s first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)