Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
Tusculan Disputations 3 ¶16–17 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
From “On Grief of Mind”
Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 3 ¶16–17
I think you said that it was your opinion that a wise man was liable to grief. A. And so, indeed, I think.
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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 3 ¶16–17, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)
https://whatwouldstoicsdo.com/passage/tusculan-disputations/3.16
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0). Sources and licences
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AI-written notesA brief exchange in which the speaker recalls the friend's earlier claim that a wise person is liable to grief, and the friend confirms it.
Themes and situations
- Grief and mourning
- Emotions and the passions
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