Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."
Marcus Tullius Cicero