The Collected Works of Cicero Quotes

“The result of the British war is a source of anxiety. For it is ascertained that the approaches to the island are protected by astonishing masses of cliff. Moreover, it is now known that there isn't a pennyweight of silver in that island, nor any hope of booty except from slaves, among whom I don't[Pg 283] suppose you can expect any instructed in literature or music.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Collected Works of Cicero: PergamonMedia

“The evils which were undermining the Republic bear so many striking resemblances to those which threaten the civic and national life of America to-day that the interest of the period is by no means merely historical.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Collected Works of Cicero: PergamonMedia

“277 The Lætorian Law was a security for those under age against extortioners, etc. By this law all debts contracted under twenty-five years of age were void.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Collected Works of Cicero: PergamonMedia

“that are divided by seven distinct intervals, which is generally the regulating number of all things.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Collected Works of Cicero: PergamonMedia

“No one, I thought, could with greater propriety speak on old age than one who had been an old man longer than any one else, and had been exceptionally vigorous in his old age.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Collected Works of Cicero: PergamonMedia