Famous quotes containing the words marcus tullius cicero, tullius cicero, marcus tullius, marcus, tullius and/or cicero:
“The good of the people is the greatest law.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“No obligation to do the impossible is binding.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“In time of war the laws are silent.”
—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)
“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)