"To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child."

- Cicero -

"As the old proverb says 'Like readily consorts with like.' "
- Cicero -

"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."

- Cicero -


"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
- Cicero -


"No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself."
- Cicero -


"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."
- Cicero -


The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
- Cicero -