Famous quotes containing the words marcus tullius cicero, tullius cicero, marcus tullius, marcus, tullius and/or cicero:
“Laws are silent in times of war.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“We have a vigilant consul, Caninius, who never slept once during his entire term of office!”
—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.)
“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)
“No obligation to do the impossible is binding.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)