Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Natura Deorum. Academica. Translated by H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library 268, Harvard University Press, 1933, p. 215.
The artist, Francis B. Carpenter, visited Lincoln at the White House and saw some of the hateful and threatening letters the president had received. He asked the President how he dealt with them. Today, such mail is filtered by staff and turned over to the Secret Service for possible investigation.
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.
