Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I Have The Better Right To Indulgence Herein, Because My Devotion To Letters Strengthens My Oratorical Powers, And These, Such As They Are, Have Never Failed My Friends In Their Hour Of Peril. Yet Insignificant Though These Powers May Seem To Be, I Fully Realize From What Source I Draw All That Is Highest In Them. Had I Not Persuaded Myself From My Youth Up, Thanks To The Moral Lessons Derived From A Wide Reading, That Nothing Is To Be Greatly Sought After In This Life Save Glory And Honour, And That In Their Quest All Bodily Pains And All Dangers Of Death Or Exile Should Be Lightly Accounted, I Should Never Have Borne For The Safety Of You All The Burnt Of Many A Bitter Encounter, Or Bared My Breast To The Daily Onsets Of Abandoned Persons. All Literature, All Philosophy, All History, Abounds With Incentives To Noble Action, Incentives Which Would Be Buried In Black Darkness Were The Light Of The Written Word Not Flashed Upon Them.

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