Cicero: Is Law Possible Without Virtue? Cicero, was truly a man of the state. His writings also show us he was equally a man of philosophical temperament and affluence. Of Cicero it can be said he possessed a bias towards roman life and doctrine. For Cicero every answer lay within Rome itself, from the ideal governing body to the place of divination. Cicero does not offer any alternate answers to roman society. One fundamental belief Cicero held was in the universal community of mankind. He held that a political community is nothing more than its laws' borders, since the natural laws are universally imposed; a universal political c