Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Philippics. Translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey, University of North Carolina Press, 1986, p. 325.
General Butler, when acting as Military Governor of New Orleans, requisitioned $80,000 from a local bank which he never accounted for. In a later legal action, he was reproached by a lawyer for the bank, asking what Butler's neighbors back in Massachusetts would think of his action. This was his response.
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
