Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero rose without family connections to become consul of Rome, exposed the Catiline conspiracy, and spent his life defending the republic against the men who dismantled it. He was the greatest orator in Latin and effectively created the philosophical vocabulary of the language by translating Greek concepts into it. After Caesar's assassination he attacked Mark Antony in a series of speeches and was proscribed and killed for it. His letters are the best surviving record of what that decade felt like.