Cicero was one of the most popular writers of his time. For a long time in his writing career, he wrote so many publications that his work was the benchmark for so many other pieces of work. His work was the benchmark for prose writing in Latin. Latin was also a popular European language during the middle ages. The passage that later read to the generation of lorem ipsum spoke about pain. Loosely, the text translates to “nobody pursues pain as pain, but there are circumstances in which the pain that comes with toiling bears pleasure for the one who toils.”