About times, about morals! Speech 80–63 BC. Cicero

An outstanding idler politician, a bona fide statesman, an irreconcilable fighter with tyranny and corruption, a deep theoretician of rhetoric and a magnificent speaker, a flexible thinker, erudis, a philosopher close to the Stoics and a thoughtful writer who has become a legislator of words and style for many centuries, Mark Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) was the figure of an invariably brilliant, at times, at times, but inspiring even in the black periods of his political and personal biography. The legacy of Cicero for centuries served Europeans with a perfect example of expressive accuracy and the richest source of knowledge about the history of ancient Rome. Even after two millennia, Cicero remains relevant, and not only as a historical source. Based on the material of his speeches, we still learn the principles of discussion and competent argument: skills, especially useful now, when everyone is discussing with everyone, sometimes not hearing either opponents or even themselves.

The collection includes selected speeches Cicero 80–63 BC. e., including his very first speech in the criminal court in defense of the Hackstage, the Federal Air Transport Agency, which created a young Cicero glory to the brilliant speaker, and speech against the governor of Sicily, corrupt official, bribe taker and tyrant Guy Verreza.