Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶22 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
From “On Bearing Pain”
Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶22
It is hard to say that the man who was obliged to cry out in this manner was not oppressed with evil, and great evil too.
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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶22, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)
https://whatwouldstoicsdo.com/passage/tusculan-disputations/2.22
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0). Sources and licences
In plain English
AI-written notesAfter Philoctetes' cries, the speaker concedes that someone forced to cry out like that is plainly weighed down by something truly bad. It is a short point in building the case that pain counts as an evil.
Themes and situations
- Pleasure and pain
- Adversity and hardship
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