The Philosopher
Cicero
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- Roman
- Branchs:
- Rhetoric, Philosophy, Politics, Law, Theology, Ethics, Epistemology
- Period:
- Hellenistic philosophy
The synopsis
The works
Pro Quinctio
Pro Roscio Amerino
In Verrem
Catilinarian orations
Philippicae
De Inventione
Rhetorica ad Herennium
De Oratore
Partitiones Oratoriae
De Optimo Genere Oratorum
Brutus
Orator
De legibus
Hortensius
Academica
Consolatio
De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
Tusculanae Disputationes
De Natura Deorum
De Divinatione
De Fato
Cato Maior de Senectute
Laelius de Amicitia
De Officiis
De Re Publica
Somnium Scipionis
Paradoxa Stoicorum
The quotes
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.