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    <body><![CDATA[I have students who know more about Rome than I do, and considering that my students only come up to my knees, I am hardly someone to listen to about Rome.  That said, I don't think it could do a great deal of harm for more Americans to learn about the life of a man who died trying to defend his Rep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29804199">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My advice is to skip the section on Cicero's letters, it's boring. But his work on growing old is fantastic, and it really does make you almost look forward to old age. Reading his works, you can see why the Roman Empire flourished.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Cicero... no more to say.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[unfortunately i found this tough going. probably because i am fairly ignorant about ancient rome. perhaps if were better educated i would have been able to lose myself in the prose. alas, it was not to be. though i did like the letters - made that era come to life for me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a good read.  I enjoyed his prosecution of Antony, and the philosophical dilemmas he raised.  &quot;Is that which is right ever conflict with that which is advantageous?&quot;  I also was convicted of how in the American culture we do not revere our elders as we should.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Against Verres&quot; 4 stars<br/>&quot;Letters&quot; 3 stars<br/>&quot;The Second Philippic&quot; 5 stars<br/>&quot;on Duties&quot; 2 stars<br/>&quot;On Old Age&quot; 4 stars<br/><br/>That averages out to 3.6 and since I can't give half stars, overall, the book gets 4 stars.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the publication i am reading, but since I don't read Latin, any translation will work for me.  I love to read great persuasive oration...and Cicero is the greatest of his time.]]></body>
    
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