Marcus Tullius Cicero

De Officiis

Essay on duty, virtue, and obligation in public and private conduct

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rome's greatest orator, statesman, and philosophical writer, Cicero translated Greek philosophy into Latin and made it accessible to the Roman world and all subsequent European civilization. His letters, speeches, and philosophical treatises are foundational documents of Western rhetoric and political thought. He was murdered on the orders of Mark Antony.

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