Marcus Tullius Cicero


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Noun1.Marcus Tullius Cicero - a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)Marcus Tullius Cicero - a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)
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- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman statesman, orator and lawyer in the Roman Empire, 63 BC)
'Marcus Tullius Cicero a Roman Philosopher, orator, lawyer and statesman articulated that 'a room without books is like a body without a soul'.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 ndash 43BC), a Roman statesman, orator and philosopher who once quipped that "politicians are not born they are excreted," said in an address to the Roman Senate: "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
His goal is instead to deploy the insights of one ancient thinker, Marcus Tullius Cicero, to provide a novel and, he argues, uniquely powerful defense of capitalism.
In 1965, best-selling historical novelist Taylor Caldwell published her great work on Marcus Tullius Cicero, A Pillar of Iron.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), the first known intellectual in politics, is thoroughly trashed in The History of Rome.
Tiro, who served as his secretary and confidant for three decades, wrote the first biography of Marcus Tullius Cicero, which disappeared in the Middle Ages.
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero. De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, V 5, 12.
Often having heard erudite speakers quote from Shakespeare and famous statesmen, Smriti Irani quoted Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero during a Lok Sabha debate on 'sedition in JNU'.
In the middle of the last century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, already a famous politician, tries in vain to hold republican Rome together, despite murder and civil war, against the Machiavellian ambitions first of Julius Caesar and then, following his famous Ides of March assassination, against his successors Mark Anthony and Octavian.
(21) The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Titus Pomponius Atticus, in Sixteen Books, trans.