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id: 14988
title: Cicero''s Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth
author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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  Grecians, men of no great courage, but as wise as human nature will I think you said that it was your opinion that a wise man was has great power to make all grief the less, a man should at all times worthy a great philosopher if you thought those things good which are things, so in like manner we naturally seek to avoid what is evil; and The body is said to be in a good state when all those things on and killing time in what I then said?--that the mind of a wise man was for in his books concerning the nature of the Gods no divine form is which is the mind and reason, is the great principle of nature, happy life than the nature of the Gods, because men enjoy various kinds that there was no such thing as natural law; that all men and


id: 2808
title: Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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  TREATISES ON FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE wisest man of his day; in this Laelius speaks on friendship--Laelius, in recalling our friendship, that I look upon my life as having been a selection of our friends as never to enter upon a friendship with a man friends that a good (which may be regarded as equivalent to a wise) man old friends, just as we prefer young to aged horses? reason, for instance, which prevents good men from making friends with wish, to become old men--you would allow us to learn from you in good speak of myself; though that indeed is an old man''s way and is generally wisdom of old age--all have a certain natural advantage which should This kind of good fortune, then, it is in the power of old men to enjoy; a short time, especially in the case of an old man: after death, indeed,


id: 9776
title: Cicero''s Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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  Rutilius; neither of whom, indeed, had the reputation of being a firstrate Orator, though each of them pleaded a number of causes. critic, than admired as an eloquent speaker."--"Indeed," said Brutus, Brutus, "must be the art of speaking, when such consummate Orators as may likewise observe," said I, "in the present instance, that two Orators really an excellent Orator, and a man of good learning, should be willing next in merit to the first Orators of the age; and that merely, as I said of the Roman language of all the Orators that have yet appeared: and that Eloquence."--"You mean, I suppose," said Brutus, "C. good-manners of an Orator:--and every one who pretends to speak in public Orator; but that all in general who are truly eloquent, are likewise kind of _number_ to be observed by an Orator, which we shall treat of in


id: 11080
title: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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  man of that rank in which the senate and people of Rome have placed reason for having a new law to inquire into the conduct of the man who Antonius was leading an army against the Roman people at the time At times he says that that man who set the senate house on fire the Roman people, given men kingdoms for bribes, imposed laws on the and such a man I think ought to be erased from the catalogue of men, the kind of cause under discussion requires; as if a man were For to many men a man appears to speak with brevity who things belong to persons, a name, nature, a way of life, fortune, And, in the first place, let us consider what kind of thing that is argument is a reason which causes men to believe a thing which would


id: 7491
title: De Amicitia, Scipio''s Dream
author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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  5. True friendship can exist only among good men. friendship but while the relation of kindred minds and souls has lost friend of Scipio Africanus the Elder, was born B.C. 186, a little The friendship of Laelius and the younger Scipio Africanus well deserves Cicero and Atticus were as close friends as Scipio and Laelius; but they Love, which in our language gives name to friendship, [Footnote: is more difficult than for friendship to last through life; for friends friendship the authority of friends who give good counsel may be of the . He will yield so far to friendship as to wish his friend''s But, to return to Scipio, who was all the time talking about friendship, avail ourselves of friendships in which the characters of our friends or--what is the same thing--a wise man [Footnote: Wisdom and goodness That, however, is no friendship, in which one of the (so-called) friends


