But they, be they of one class or the other, require an understanding of the man's character before they can be enjoyed.
For these reasons I think that there are incidents in the life, the character, and the work of Cicero which ought to make his biography interesting.

His story is fraught with energy, with success, with pathos, and with tragedy.

And then it is the story of a man human as men are now.

No child of Rome ever better loved his country, but no child of Rome was ever so little like a Roman.

Arms and battles were to him abominable, as they are to us.