Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men …

- Quintus Tullius Cicero

During war, the laws are silent.

- Quintus Tullius Cicero

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case…

- Quintus Tullius Cicero

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

- Quintus Tullius Cicero