Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes


Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.


Citations

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Inventione, De Optimo Genere Oratorum, Topica. Translated by H. M. Hubbell, Harvard University Press, 1949, p. 331.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  • Nationality: Roman
  • Profession: Statesman, Lawyer, Writer, Orator

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

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