Quote of the Day — 2026-08-07

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

About Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, philosopher, and orator widely regarded as one of the greatest prose stylists in Latin literature. Rising from a family without prior political prominence, he became consul of Rome and a fierce defender of the Roman Republic against figures he saw as threats to its constitutional order, most famously exposing the Catiline conspiracy. His surviving speeches, philosophical dialogues, and vast correspondence shaped Latin prose style for centuries and preserved much of Greek philosophy for the Roman and later European worlds. An opponent of Mark Antony after Julius Caesar's assassination, Cicero was proscribed and executed in 43 BC. His writings on ethics, rhetoric, and statecraft remained central to Western education well into the modern era.