Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶50 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
From “On Other Perturbations of the Mind”
Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶50
Now he will tell you how excellent he thinks this: Not even fortune herself is so fortunate.
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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 4 ¶50, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)
https://whatwouldstoicsdo.com/passage/tusculan-disputations/4.50
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0). Sources and licences
In plain English
AI-written notesA short fragment quoting a line from a comedy in which a gloating character boasts that not even Fortune is as fortunate as he is, offered as an example of unseemly, over-elated joy.
Themes and situations
- Emotions and the passions
- Pride and humility
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