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What Would Stoics Do

Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE

Tusculan Disputations

Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853) · 246 passages · 5 sections

Five conversations Cicero sets at his villa at Tusculum: on not fearing death, bearing pain, grief, the other disturbances of the mind, and whether virtue alone is enough for a happy life. Cicero (“M.”) answers an unnamed listener (“A.”), whose opinions he examines. Cicero was an Academic, not a Stoic, but Books III–V are a main Latin source for the Stoic account of the emotions and of virtue as enough for happiness.

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Contents

  1. Book IOn the Contempt of Death69 passages
  2. Book IIOn Bearing Pain37 passages
  3. Book IIIOn Grief of Mind38 passages
  4. Book IVOn Other Perturbations of the Mind45 passages
  5. Book VWhether Virtue Alone Be Sufficient for a Happy Life57 passages

Source and licence

Edition
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, translated by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Status
Tier A: Public domain in the UK and the US. Translator died 1891: public domain in the UK and the US.
Attribution
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0).
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Standard Ebooks (opens in a new tab) · CC0 1.0 (Standard Ebooks dedicates its own contributions to the public domain)

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