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Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE

Tusculan Disputations 3 ¶16–17 — Cicero (on the Stoics)

From “On Grief of Mind”

Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)

Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 3 ¶16–17

I think you said that it was your opinion that a wise man was liable to grief. A. And so, indeed, I think.
— Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 3 ¶16–17 · tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)Read in context →

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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 3 ¶16–17, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)

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A brief exchange in which the speaker recalls the friend's earlier claim that a wise person is liable to grief, and the friend confirms it.

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  • Grief and mourning
  • Emotions and the passions

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