Quotes About Tullius

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.

Catullus, the worst of all poets, gives you [Marcus Tullius] his warmest thanks; he being as much the worst of all poets as you are the best of all patrons.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Proletariat: Derived originally from the Latin PROLETARII, the name given in the census of Servius Tullius to those who were of value to the state only as the rearers of offspring (PROLES); in other words, they were of no importance either for wealth, or position, or exceptional ability.

Rome, fortunately natal 'neath my consulship!

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.