Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
Tusculan Disputations 5 ¶16–19 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
From “Whether Virtue Alone Be Sufficient for a Happy Life”
Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 5 ¶16–19
M. I can easily bear with your behaving in this manner, though it is not fair in you to prescribe to me how you would have me carry on this discussion. But I ask you if I have effected anything or nothing in the preceding days? A. Yes; something was done, some little matter indeed. M. But if that is the case, this question is settled, and almost put an end to. A. How so?
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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 5 ¶16–19, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)
https://whatwouldstoicsdo.com/passage/tusculan-disputations/5.16
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0). Sources and licences
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AI-written notesA short bit of dialogue in which the teacher objects to being told how to argue and asks whether the previous days' arguments achieved anything, setting up the claim that the question is already nearly settled.
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- Learning and progress
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