Famous quotes containing the words marcus tullius cicero, tullius cicero, marcus tullius, marcus, tullius and/or cicero:
“The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“The nobler a man is, the harder for him to suspect baseness in others.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.”
—Greil Marcus (b. 1945)
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
—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.)