Marcus Tullius Cicero

The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil , Cicero , Lucretius , Horace ) and some in French (Rousseau , Voltaire , Marmontel , and Manon Roland ). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson .

Petrarch contributed importantly to the revival of learning when in the chapter library of Verona he discovered a manuscript containing letters by Cicero , whose text had been lost for centuries.

The essays include Samuel Pepys and Francis Bacon , Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. The first, despite its title, is...

An advertisement (dated 13 April 1810) promises to delineate not only friendship's pleasures but all the great and heroic deeds inspired by it. Even love consists of friendship, when it is abstracted from the...

The second part opens with quotations from Cicero and Voltaire . It includes a picture of connubial love gone sour, turned to mutual wrongs, and mutual hate. Its examples of heroic friendship include...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

She said she took her inspiration from Cicero 's De senectute (On Old Age), feeling that on this topic a Christian ought to be able to produce something more worthwhile than even a virtuous heathen.

On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton dwells on the honorific funeral which Tollet, as a woman, would not have attended. On the analogy of Cicero 's restoration of the tomb of Archimedes , she...