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The greatest orator in Roman history gives some reflections on various topics. Written while in exile during the reign of Caesar and shortly after the death of his daughter, Cicero was finishing up some works he had put off since he considered his political life over. He covers what it takes to live a good life, mostly being of moral character and the rest will take care of itself; on the duties of a proper Roman toward the state by living the good life and setting a good example; on friendship, how a friend in need is a friend indeed; and a treatise on being an orator, by which he means a statesman. He ends with a short religious work describing the universe with Earth at the center and the nature of the human soul.

Really well written though Cicero sometimes choses the rhetorical practice of arguing both sides of an issue. Thomas Jefferson referenced his work extensively while writing the U.S. Constitution.