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Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE

Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶38 — Cicero (on the Stoics)

From “On Other Perturbations of the Mind”

Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)

Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶38

Note: Spoken by Cicero’s listener (“A.”), not by Cicero — the reply follows in the next passage.

A. I think it is. I wait, therefore, to hear what you will say in reply to them.
— Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶38 · tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)Read in context →

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