Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Oratore, Books 1-2. Translated by E. W. Sutton and H. Rackham, Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 5.
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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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