Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero
If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
He he he. . . Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's. . . madness.
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by. . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.
In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.
I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.
