Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

There is a brief reference to his love poetry in a passage by Cicero.

In Cicero the deed is ascribed to jealousy.

There are ten extant letters ascribed to him, one of which is also quoted by Cicero:

The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

* 43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.

" / " To think philosophically is good, but in little doses "-Quoted by Cicero in " Tusculanes ", book II, part 1.

Nor faith ( where ) kingship is "-quoted by Cicero in " On Duties ( part 1 )"

" Gary Remer writes, " Like Cicero, Erasmus concludes that truth is furthered by a more harmonious relationship between interlocutors.

Much of Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns, and from other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust.

After his death he received the cognomen Cicero, after the Roman orator Cicero, but the elector's eloquence and interest in the arts is doubtful.

He imitated the style of Gaius Titius, and his language is praised by Cicero.

Another Greek play with a similar name, Misogunos ( Μισόγυνος ) or Woman-hater, is reported by Cicero ( in Latin ) and attributed to ( Marcus ) Atilius ( poet ).

" Besides its mention of Cicero, Moses is the only non-Greek writer quoted in the work, and he is described " with far more admiration than even Greek writers who treated Moses with respect, such as Hecataeus and Strabo.

* 47 BC – Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.

Cicero is the only Roman source that mentions Antony ’ s first wife.

Carlyle notes: " There is no change in political theory so startling in its completeness as the change from the theory of Aristotle to the later philosophical view represented by Cicero and Seneca .... We think that this cannot be better exemplified than with regard to the theory of the equality of human nature.

" Parkin observes that much of Cumberland's material " is derived from Roman Stoicism, particularly from the work of Cicero, as " Cumberland deliberately cast his engagement with Hobbes in the mould of Cicero's debate between the Stoics, who believed that nature could provide an objective morality, and Epicureans, who argued that morality was human, conventional and self-interested.

One possibility is derivation from a reduplicated, an interpretation traced to Cicero connecting " read ", i. e. re ( again ) + lego in the sense of " choose ", " go over again " or " consider carefully ".

Rhetorica ad Herennium, formerly attributed to Cicero but now considered to be of unknown authorship, is one of the most significant works on rhetoric and is still widely used as a reference today.

Cicero is considered one of the most significant rhetoricians of all time.

" Cicero expressed the view that " the virtues which we ought to cultivate, always tend to our own happiness, and that the best means of promoting them consists in living with men in that perfect union and charity which are cemented by mutual benefits.

Cicero ( 106-43 BC ) was chief among Roman rhetoricians and remains the best known ancient orator and the only orator who both spoke in public and produced treatises on the subject.

The best explanation available is that of Cicero in De legibus, in which he proposes ideal laws based on Roman constitutional theory:

A tradition mentioned by Cicero states that Agamedes and Trophonius, after having built this temple, prayed to the god to grant them in reward for their labor what was best for men.

Baiter's strong point was textual criticism, applied chiefly to Cicero and the Attic orators ; he was very successful in finding the best manuscript authorities, and his collations were made with the greatest accuracy.

They include Hesiod ( 1667 ), Lucian, Pseudosophista ( 1668 ), Justin, Historiae Philippicae ( 1669 ), Suetonius ( 1672 ), Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius ( 1680 ), and several of the works of Cicero, which are considered his best.

Strauss quotes Cicero: " The Republic does not bring to light the best possible regime but rather the nature of political things – the nature of the city.

According to Cicero, Publius Sulpicius Rufus and Cotta were the best speakers of the young men of their time.

He is best remembered as the closest friend of orator and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero as well leading contemporaries of upper class Roman society.

Sandlotter Otto Kolar, from Cicero, Ill., was rated as one of the best guards in the Midwest and ran the Red Skins offense.

He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law, and is possibly best known for his roles as Paulie Cicero, a portrayal of Paul Vario in the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas and Sgt.

( Municipium ) HENNA " thus confirming the authority of Cicero, all the best manuscripts of which have the aspirated form of the name.

However, Cicero did not let the jury forget that he was the best witness of Clodia ’ s schemes by telling his story at the end of the speech.

The reputation which Lucilius enjoyed in the best ages of Roman literature is proved by the terms in which Cicero and Horace speak of him.

He makes a distinction, in which he evidently follows Cicero, between sapientia ( wisdom ) and eloquentia ( the best expression of it ).

He is best known for his trial for public violence ( de vi publica ) in March 56 BC, when Cicero defended him in the extant speech Pro Caelio, and as both recipient and author of some of the best-written letters in the ad Familiares corpus of Cicero's extant correspondence.

Cicero considered farming the best of all Roman occupations.

De Officiis ( On Duties or On Obligations ) is an essay by Marcus Tullius Cicero divided into three books, in which Cicero expounds his conception of the best way to live, behave, and observe moral obligations.

His predecessor Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther was a good and honest administrator, and his successor Cicero one of the best in Roman history.

Cicero even goes as far as to suggest that the death of Clodius was in the best interests of the republic.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, in particular, was the first known person to create a questionnaire for the mentally ill using biographical information to determine the best course of psychological treatment and care.

He was a philosopher of considerable reputation in his time, for Strabo in describing Ascalon, mentions his birth there as a mark of distinction for the city, and Cicero frequently speaks of him in affectionate and respectful terms as the best and wisest of the Academics, and the most polished and acute philosopher of his age.