Famous quotes containing the words marcus tullius cicero, tullius cicero, marcus tullius, marcus, tullius and/or cicero:
“It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“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.)
“Happy Rome, born in my consulship!”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn’t just ours—it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can’t beat it.”
—Greil Marcus (b. 1945)
“The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)