| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12434 |
| QUOTATION: | Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. De republica, III, 34. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Cicero Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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