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That Silence Is One Of The Great Arts Of Conversation Is Allowed By Cicero Himself, Who Says, There Is Not Only An Art, But Even An Eloquence In It

I Would Rather Be An Expert On Me Than On Cicero

Cicero Said Loud-bawling Orators Were Driven By Their Weakness To Noise, As Lame Men To Take Horse.

Cicero Called Aristotle A River Of Flowing Gold, And Said Of Plato's Dialogues, That If Jupiter Were To Speak, It Would Be In Language Like Theirs.

What Cicero Said Of Men-that They Are Like Wines, Age Souring The Bad, And Bettering The Good-we Can Say Of Misfortune, That It Has The Same Effect Upon Them.

How Comes It That You Curse, Frere Jean? It's Only, Said The Monk, In Order To Embellish My Language. They Are The Colors Of Ciceronian Rhetoric.

The Anarchist Is Dressed All In Black. In The Dark You Can Only See His Eyes. It Dates From The 1930's. Porky Pig Is A Little Boy. The Children Told Me That He Has A Nephew Now, Cicero. Do You Remember, During The War, When Porky Worked In A Defense Plant? He And Bugs Bunny. That Was A Good One Too.

The Vanity Extended Most Of All To His Library, Arguably The Real Love Of Cicero's Life. It Is Difficult To Name Anything In Which He Took More Pleasure, Aside Possibly Evasion Of The Sumptuary Laws. Cicero Liked To Believe Himself Wealthy. He Prided Himself On His Books. He Needed No Further Reason To Dislike Cleopatra: Intelligent Women Who Had Better Libraries Than He Did Offended Him On Three Counts.

With A Mental Equipment Which Allows Me To Tell The Difference Between Hot And Cold, I Stand Out In This Community Like A Modern Day Cicero. Dropped Into Any Other City Of The World, I'd Rate As A Possibly Adequate Night Watchman.

Cicero, In His Treatise Concerning The Nature Of The Gods, Having Said That Three Jupiters Were Enumerated By Theologians, Adds That The Third Was Of Crete, The Son Of Saturn, And That His Tomb Is Shown In That Island.

I Have Been....moved To Wonder Whether My Job Is A Job Or A Racket, Whether Economists, And Particularly Economic Theorists, May Not Be In The Position That Cicero, Citing Cato, Ascribed To The Augurs Of Rome-that They Should Cover Their Faces Or Burst Into Laugher When They Met On The Street.

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.