His spoken words speak plainly enough of the condition of the courts of law, and let us know how resolved he was to oppose himself to their iniquities.

A young man may devote himself to politics with as much ardor as a senior, but he cannot do so if he be intent on a profession.

It is only when his business is so well grasped by him as to sit easily on him, that he is able to undertake the second occupation.
There is a rumor that Cicero, when he returned home from Greece, thought for awhile of giving himself up to philosophy, so that he was called Greek and Sophist in ridicule.

It is not, however, to be believed that he ever for a moment abandoned the purpose he had formed for his own career.

It will become evident as we go on with his life, that this so-called philosophy of the Greeks was never to him a matter of more than interesting inquiry.