Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶56–59 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
From “On Bearing Pain”
Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶56–59
A. Not in the least, indeed, and I hope I am freed by these two days’ discourses from the fear of two things that I greatly dreaded. M. Tomorrow, then, for rhetoric, as we were saying. But I see we must not drop our philosophy. A. No, indeed; we will have the one in the forenoon, and this at the usual time. M. It shall be so, and I will comply with your very laudable inclinations.
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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶56–59, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)
https://whatwouldstoicsdo.com/passage/tusculan-disputations/2.56
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AI-written notesA short closing exchange in which the student reports that two days of discussion have freed him from two things he greatly feared, death and pain, and the pair plan to take rhetoric in the morning and philosophy later.
Themes and situations
- Fear and anxiety
- Learning and progress
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