Explanation: Cicero was a politician in the Late Roman Republic, whose writings have remained widely read into the modern day for their skilled use of rhetoric and the Latin language.
… he was also an insufferable spineless weasel who loved to praise himself. And a literal slumlord.
A Roman senator was fifteen minutes late to the Senate on a day Cicero was giving a speech. He sat down and quietly asked the senator next to him what Cicero was talking about. The senator replied, “I don’t know - he hadn’t got to the verb yet!”
Explanation: Cicero was a politician in the Late Roman Republic, whose writings have remained widely read into the modern day for their skilled use of rhetoric and the Latin language.
… he was also an insufferable spineless weasel who loved to praise himself. And a literal slumlord.
Except for the skilled use of language, we know his ideological descendant.
Who was the lad that told Alexander to get out of his sun? Well known for all sorts of public indecency. He sounds fairly insufferable too.
Diogenes of Sinope. He wasn’t entirely insufferable, though, because at least he was funny.
Being funny is the cure to being annoying