Cicero

: For other uses see Cicero (disambiguation)

Works

Speeches

Of his speeches, eighty-eight were recorded, but only fifty-eight survive. (Some of the items below are more than one speech.)

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Quotes

• "What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."

Political speeches

Early career (before exile)

• (66 BC) Pro Lege Manilia or De Imperio Cn. Pompei (in favour of the Manilian Law on the command of Pompey)
• (63 BC) De Lege Agraria contra Rullum (Opposing the Agrarian Law proposed by Rullus)
• (63 BC) In Catilinam I-IV (Catiline Orations or Against Catiline) http://www.uah.edu/student_life/organizations/SAL/claslattexts/cicero/incatilinam.html

Mid career (after exile)

Late career

• (46 BC) Pro Marcello (On behalf of Marcellus)
• (46 BC) Pro Ligario (On behalf of Ligarius before Caesar)
• (46 BC) Pro Rege Deiotaro (On behalf of King Deiotarius before Caesar)
• (44 BC) Philippicae (consisting of the 14 philippics Philippica I-XIV against Marcus Antonius) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0021

(The Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario, and Pro Rege Deiotaro are collectively known as "The Caesarian speeches").

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Philosophy

Rhetoric

• (84 BC) de Inventione (On the composition of arguments)
• (55 BC) de Oratore (On the orator)
• (54 BC) de Partitionibus Oratoriae (On the subdivisions of oratory)
• (52 BC) de Optimo Genere Oratorum (On the Best Kind of Orators)
• (46 BC) Brutus (The Brutus, a short history of Roman oratory)
• (46 BC) Orator ad M. Brutum (The Orator, also dedicated to Brutus)
• (44 BC) Topica (Topics of argumentation)
• (?? BC) Rhetorica ad Herennium (traditionally attributed to Cicero, but currently disputed)

Other philosophical works

• (51 BC) de Republica (On the Republic)
• (45 BC) Hortensius (Hortensius)
• (45 BC) Lucullus or Academica Priora (The Prior Academics)
• (45 BC) Academica Posteriora (The Later Academics)
• (45 BC) De Finibus, Bonorum et Malorum (About the Ends of Goods and Evils). http://www.epicurus.info/etexts/De_Finibus.html Source of Lorem ipsum
• (45 BC) Tusculanæ Quaestiones (Questions debated at Tusculum)
• (45 BC) de Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)
• (45 BC) de Divinatione (On Divination)
• (45 BC) de Fato (On Fate)
• (44 BC) Cato Maior de Senectute (Cato the Elder On Old Age)
• (44 BC) Laelius de Amicitia (Laelius On Friendship)
• (44 BC) de Officiis (On Duties)
• (?? BC) Paradoxa Stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes)
• (?? BC) de Legibus (On the Laws)
• (?? BC) de Consulatu Suo (On His Consulship)
• (?? BC) de temporibus suis (On His Life and Times)
• (?? BC) Commentariolum Petitionis (Handbook of Candidacy) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0022:text=Pet.:section=1 (attributed to Cicero, but probably written by his brother Quintus)

Letters

• (68 BC-43 BC) Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)
• (59 BC-54 BC) Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem (Letters to his brother Quintus)
• (43 BC) Epistulae ad Brutum (Letters to Brutus)
• (43 BC) Epistulae ad Familiares (Letters to his friends)