Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶38 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
From “On Other Perturbations of the Mind”
Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶38
Note: Spoken by Cicero’s listener (“A.”), not by Cicero — the reply follows in the next passage.
A. I think it is. I wait, therefore, to hear what you will say in reply to them.
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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶38, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)
https://whatwouldstoicsdo.com/passage/tusculan-disputations/4.38
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0). Sources and licences
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AI-written notesA one-line reply from the student, saying the Aristotelian case seems worth considering and asking the teacher to answer it.
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- Emotions and the passions
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