The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations
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Chapters
- 1. Chapter 1: When a short time ago my friend Atticus(2) was with... 2:11 Free
- 2. Chapter 2: You are asking me, he replied, about a matter on whi... 4:31
- 3. Chapter 3: The fact, I replied, is just as you say, Varro 3:21
- 4. Chapter 4: Then he replied 4:58
- 5. Chapter 5: I entreat you however, said Atticus, I entreat you t... 3:03
- 6. Chapter 6: And these are those three kinds which most people be... 2:26
- 7. Chapter 7: To be sure we will, said Atticus 4:11
- 8. Chapter 8: The third part of philosophy, which is next in order... 1:46
- 9. Chapter 9: This was the first philosophy handed down to them by... 1:56
- 10. Chapter 10: Zeno, then, was not at all a man like Theophrastus... 2:41
- 11. Chapter 11: But about natures he held these opinions 2:58
- 12. Chapter 12: And when he had spoken thus—You have, said I, O Varr... 3:07
- 13. Chapter 1: Lucius Lucullus was a man of great genius, and very... 3:57
- 14. Chapter 2: But as for those exploits of Lucullus, which were en... 3:13
- 15. Chapter 3: There remains one class of critics who disapprove of... 3:16
- 16. Chapter 4: Then Catulus said,—Although what we were inquiring i... 3:56
- 17. Chapter 5: And having said this, he began again:—You appear to... 3:33
- 18. Chapter 6: But, however, we will allow, if you like, that all t... 4:05
- 19. Chapter 7: Let us begin then with the senses—the judgments of w... 4:25
- 20. Chapter 8: And most especially does the knowledge of virtues co... 3:10
- 21. Chapter 9: But if all things which are seen were of that sort t... 3:13
- 22. Chapter 10: The next point for discussion is one which is copiou... 3:16
- 23. Chapter 11: But what rule can there be, if we have no notion wha... 3:54
- 24. Chapter 12: However, we have said enough about perception 2:22
- 25. Chapter 13: Now let us examine the arguments which are commonly... 3:01
- 26. Chapter 14: Now all this subtlety I consider indeed thoroughly w... 3:13
- 27. Chapter 15: Wherefore, as there are two causes which oppose what... 2:55
- 28. Chapter 16: Now on all these empty perceptions Antiochus brought... 3:18
- 29. Chapter 17: But while these visions are being beheld, they assum... 4:23
- 30. Chapter 18: First of all I reply, that you are bringing me to th... 4:49
- 31. Chapter 19: These are nearly the arguments which Antiochus used... 3:11
- 32. Chapter 20: Then I, being no less agitated than I usually am whe... 3:26
- 33. Chapter 21: If the wise man ever assents to anything, he will li... 1:46
- 34. Chapter 22: But first I must say a few words to Antiochus; who u... 2:37
- 35. Chapter 23: But we will argue this point more at length another... 3:08
- 36. Chapter 24: Do I not seem to you, not, like Saturninus, to be co... 3:40
- 37. Chapter 25: However, let us say no more about this 3:28
- 38. Chapter 26: What need had I to speak of the ship 4:02
- 39. Chapter 27: But you have recourse to art, which you call in to t... 3:19
- 40. Chapter 28: Why should I speak of madmen?—such as your relation... 3:46
- 41. Chapter 29: What then, you will say; are we to be blamed for tha... 3:39
- 42. Chapter 30: However, I will pass over all this 3:50
- 43. Chapter 31: However, to pass over all those prickles, and all th... 3:17
- 44. Chapter 32: But if this is the case, that one false idea can be... 3:56
- 45. Chapter 33: Since, therefore, what is probable, is thus inferred... 3:34
- 46. Chapter 34: Now on this subject many things have been said and w... 3:30
- 47. Chapter 35: And I seem to myself to be at this moment adopting t... 2:05
- 48. Chapter 36: This is what I cannot bear 4:19
- 49. Chapter 37: First of all, Thales, one of the seven, to whom they... 2:21
- 50. Chapter 38: Suppose that all this is true: (for you see already... 2:45
- 51. Chapter 39: All these mysteries, O Lucullus, lie concealed and e... 2:59
- 52. Chapter 40: Some of these theories seem certain to your wise man... 2:17
- 53. Chapter 41: But why should you seek to disparage me 3:16
- 54. Chapter 42: However, to go back to what I had begun to say—What... 3:12
- 55. Chapter 43: This now is plain enough, that all these chief goods... 3:16
- 56. Chapter 44: However, they differ as to this principle 2:45
- 57. Chapter 45: I have read in Clitomachus, that when Carneades and... 14:39
- 58. Chapter 1: I was not ignorant, Brutus, when I was endeavouring... 2:41
- 59. Chapter 2: It is more difficult to satisfy those men who allege... 2:56
- 60. Chapter 3: Although if I were to translate Plato or Aristotle i... 3:13
- 61. Chapter 4: And I myself (as I do not think that I can be accuse... 2:40
- 62. Chapter 5: To begin, however, with that which is easiest, we wi... 2:45
- 63. Chapter 6: What is it, then, said he, which you do not approve... 4:10
- 64. Chapter 7: And as for the second part of philosophy, which belo... 4:18
- 65. Chapter 8: And when I had said this, more for the purpose of ex... 2:55
- 66. Chapter 9: First of all then, said he, I will proceed in the ma... 2:42
- 67. Chapter 10: But that you may come to an accurate perception of t... 4:27
- 68. Chapter 11: But, however, for the present we have said enough ab... 3:01
- 69. Chapter 12: But that pleasure is the boundary of all good things... 2:04
- 70. Chapter 13: And those who place this in virtue alone, and, being... 2:49
- 71. Chapter 14: But if we see that the whole life of man is thrown i... 1:53
- 72. Chapter 15: The same principle will be found to hold good with r... 1:27
- 73. Chapter 16: Justice remains to be mentioned, that I may not omit... 3:37
- 74. Chapter 17: And I will now explain in a few words the things whi... 2:21
- 75. Chapter 18: Oh what a splendid, and manifest, and simple, and pl... 3:02
- 76. Chapter 19: However, these assertions may be to a certain extent... 3:22
- 77. Chapter 20: There remains a topic necessary above all others to... 4:28
- 78. Chapter 21: Wherefore, if the things which I have been saying ar... 2:01
- 79. Chapter 1: On this, when both of them fixed their eyes on me, a... 2:32
- 80. Chapter 2: But every discourse which is concerned in the invest... 2:24
- 81. Chapter 3: Then he laughed, and said,—This is a capital idea, i... 4:33
- 82. Chapter 4: Is it possible, said he, for anything to be more del... 3:51
- 83. Chapter 5: Do I not, then, seem to you sufficiently to understa... 2:56
- 84. Chapter 6: Then, said he, a truce, if you please, to all your q... 3:15
- 85. Chapter 7: They are also two distinct things, that you may not... 3:29
- 86. Chapter 8: What then is the use of saying, I should have nothin... 4:17
- 87. Chapter 9: We must then discard pleasure, not only in order to... 3:15
- 88. Chapter 10: But this he does not see, that it is a great proof t... 3:33
- 89. Chapter 11: But as for beasts, I do not consider that they can p... 2:53
- 90. Chapter 12: But when Epicurus had given pleasure the highest ran... 2:30
- 91. Chapter 13: I now, following the authority of this man, will do... 3:58
- 92. Chapter 14: Your school, then, is now the only one remaining to... 4:04
- 93. Chapter 15: Here, now, O Torquatus, you have a picture of what i... 2:39
- 94. Chapter 16: Therefore, Torquatus, when you said that Epicurus as... 2:36
- 95. Chapter 17: We are not, therefore, inquiring about a man who is... 3:20
- 96. Chapter 18: But picture to yourself a man not only cunning, so a... 2:21
- 97. Chapter 19: Now apply the same arguments to modesty, or temperan... 3:33
- 98. Chapter 20: There was a man of Lanuvium, called Lucius Thorius B... 3:02
- 99. Chapter 21: Now you, O Torquatus, must either blame all these ac... 2:39
- 100. Chapter 22: But Epicurus (for this is your great point) denies t... 4:52
- 101. Chapter 23: However, be it so 2:25
- 102. Chapter 24: Take care lest you find yourselves obliged to use ou... 3:06
- 103. Chapter 25: You, indeed, O Torquatus, would do all these things 1:48
- 104. Chapter 26: However, all this is nothing to the purpose 3:26
- 105. Chapter 27: But we are getting too prolix in the most self-evide... 4:11
- 106. Chapter 28: But you will say, Come, these things are trifles 4:05
- 107. Chapter 29: But when you say that great pains last but a short t... 2:03
- 108. Chapter 30: Listen, that I may not make too wide a digression, t... 2:58
- 109. Chapter 31: You may twist yourself about in every direction as y... 4:13
- 110. Chapter 32: However, to return to our subject, (for while we wer... 3:13
- 111. Chapter 33: But how can that proposition possibly be maintained... 3:19
- 112. Chapter 34: But we, if indeed all things depend on pleasure, are... 4:18
- 113. Chapter 35: Read, O Torquatus, the panegyrics, not of those men... 3:34
- 114. Chapter 1: I think, Brutus, that Pleasure, if she were to speak... 2:38
- 115. Chapter 2: And, without dwelling on the case of these liberal a... 5:38
- 116. Chapter 3: Then Cato said: But now, what books in the world are... 2:31
- 117. Chapter 4: All that you have been saying, Cato, I replied, you... 3:32
- 118. Chapter 5: Those philosophers, said he, whose system I approve... 3:15
- 119. Chapter 6: Let us then proceed, said he, since we have digresse... 3:12
- 120. Chapter 7: But as all duties proceed from the first principles... 2:11
- 121. Chapter 8: Let us see now how admirably these rules follow from... 3:57
- 122. Chapter 9: Not that I am ignorant that the opinions of philosop... 2:39
- 123. Chapter 10: But it may be as well to give an explanation and def... 2:38
- 124. Chapter 11: But that everything which is honourable is to be sou... 2:59
- 125. Chapter 12: Certainly; Cato, said I, you are employing very admi... 1:33
- 126. Chapter 13: Then he proceeded:—After these things, therefore, ar... 3:08
- 127. Chapter 14: For as the light of a candle is obscured and put out... 2:53
- 128. Chapter 15: I am aware that all this seems very strange 3:04
- 129. Chapter 16: For as, says he, no one in a king's palace says that... 2:35
- 130. Chapter 17: Now these things which we have spoken of as preferre... 2:21
- 131. Chapter 18: And this also is evident, that in these natural thin... 3:13
- 132. Chapter 19: But they think it is very important with reference t... 2:59
- 133. Chapter 20: It is in this disposition of mind that wills, and th... 2:53
- 134. Chapter 21: But in order that the society, and union, and affect... 2:40
- 135. Chapter 22: The same honour is also attributed to natural philos... 3:32
- 136. Chapter 1: And when he had made an end of saying these things... 2:22
- 137. Chapter 2: I think, then, said I, O Cato, that those ancient pu... 1:44
- 138. Chapter 3: How many books have these men written on the republic 3:09
- 139. Chapter 4: The next thing is the principle of arguing, and the... 2:46
- 140. Chapter 5: Similar things may be said about the explanation of... 2:56
- 141. Chapter 6: But enough of this 2:07
- 142. Chapter 7: All nature desires to be a preserver of itself, in o... 2:37
- 143. Chapter 8: You here, O Cato, have a sketch of the philosophers... 2:13
- 144. Chapter 9: Oh, what a splendid force is there in such genius, a... 2:55
- 145. Chapter 10: But, however, to come, O Cato, more closely to what... 1:45
- 146. Chapter 11: Come, now let them teach us, or rather do so yoursel... 1:49
- 147. Chapter 12: But in one case the chief good might rightly be plac... 2:56
- 148. Chapter 13: But if, as we ought to agree, there is a certain nat... 3:14
- 149. Chapter 14: Why do we hesitate, then, to inquire as to his whole... 3:32
- 150. Chapter 15: But now you say that virtue cannot properly be estab... 2:27
- 151. Chapter 16: Therefore, all those men appear to me to have made a... 2:51
- 152. Chapter 17: But I am very far from approving this conduct of you... 2:19
- 153. Chapter 18: Now I come to those brief statements of yours which... 2:47
- 154. Chapter 19: In truth, in all these conclusions, I should think t... 3:11
- 155. Chapter 20: Afterwards that little Phœnician of yours (for you k... 2:25
- 156. Chapter 21: They say that the desire of the mind is excited when... 2:04
- 157. Chapter 22: If we are to discuss the reality of the case, then t... 2:21
- 158. Chapter 23: But if you were to answer truly, Cato, you would be... 2:24
- 159. Chapter 24: These cases are not alike, Cato 3:08
- 160. Chapter 25: What, then, is the cause of these difficulties 2:51
- 161. Chapter 26: However, let us hear a little more 2:48
- 162. Chapter 27: Piso, then—a most excellent man, and, as you well kn... 3:02
- 163. Chapter 28: However, they press on, and relax nothing 2:25
- 164. Chapter 1: One day when I had been hearing Antiochus lecture, a... 2:43
- 165. Chapter 2: On this I chimed in:—Our friend Pomponius, said I, a... 2:54
- 166. Chapter 3: Piso replied—Although, while our friend here (meanin... 2:22
- 167. Chapter 4: What great elegance there is in the Peripatetic syst... 2:20
- 168. Chapter 5: But respecting the chief good, because there are two... 2:52
- 169. Chapter 6: My young friend Lucius, therefore, acts prudently wh... 2:31
- 170. Chapter 7: Some people consider the first desire to be a desire... 2:40
- 171. Chapter 8: These, then, are six plain opinions about the chief... 3:04
- 172. Chapter 9: Therefore, after the fashion of the ancients, which... 3:13
- 173. Chapter 10: Since then, said he, we have explained the limit of... 2:41
- 174. Chapter 11: And this also would be a very absurd thing if any on... 3:43
- 175. Chapter 12: The next thing which we must examine is, what is the... 2:20
- 176. Chapter 13: But there are many virtues of the mind, and of that... 2:38
- 177. Chapter 14: But there are some beasts in which there is somethin... 2:50
- 178. Chapter 15: As, therefore, the form of nature is such as I have... 3:16
- 179. Chapter 16: We must therefore enter into the nature of things, a... 1:36
- 180. Chapter 17: And hitherto, indeed, reason has advanced with us in... 2:27
- 181. Chapter 18: Let us consider the parts of the mind, the appearanc... 2:27
- 182. Chapter 19: What ardour for study do you not suppose there must... 4:05
- 183. Chapter 20: But there are tokens supplied by nature, still clear... 2:36
- 184. Chapter 21: This, then, is evident, that we were born for action 3:11
- 185. Chapter 22: But at present we need only explain that these thing... 3:14
- 186. Chapter 23: And having briefly explained these matters, (for I h... 3:33
- 187. Chapter 24: How then, you will say, can it be true that everythi... 3:19
- 188. Chapter 25: The knowledge of things has been often extolled in a... 2:39
- 189. Chapter 26: Then Lucius said,—Indeed, I quite agree with what yo... 3:02
- 190. Chapter 27: I will answer, said I, that I am not inquiring at pr... 2:50
- 191. Chapter 28: Why do you ask me that 4:16
- 192. Chapter 29: Listen then, said he, O Lucius; for, as Theophrastus... 3:35
- 193. Chapter 30: But I come now to the charge of inconsistency, that... 3:13
- 194. Chapter 31: Do you not grant even this to the Peripatetics, that... 2:02
- 195. Chapter 32: This, then, is our doctrine, which appears to you to... 3:39
- 196. Chapter 1: At a time when I had entirely, or to a great degree... 2:08
- 197. Chapter 2: It was, therefore, late before poets were either kno... 1:31
- 198. Chapter 3: But on the contrary, we early entertained an esteem... 1:32
- 199. Chapter 4: But, as Aristotle,(53) a man of the greatest genius... 1:29
- 200. Chapter 5: A. To me death seems to be an evil 1:38
- 201. Chapter 6: A. Do you take me to be so imbecile as to give credi... 2:34
- 202. Chapter 7: A. You are pleasant; as if I had said that those men... 1:49
- 203. Chapter 8: M. Do you not, then, perceive how great is the evil... 2:03
- 204. Chapter 9: M. I will comply with your wishes, and explain as we... 2:08
- 205. Chapter 10: But what I have said as to the heart, the blood, the... 2:45
- 206. Chapter 11: If I have not forgotten anything unintentionally, th... 3:00
- 207. Chapter 12: A. Explain, therefore, if it is not troublesome to y... 2:30
- 208. Chapter 13: Examine the sepulchres of those which are shown in G... 1:38
- 209. Chapter 14: But the greatest proof of all is, that nature hersel... 1:16
- 210. Chapter 15: What will you say 2:02
- 211. Chapter 16: But as we are led by nature to think there are gods... 2:43
- 212. Chapter 17: But I return to the ancients 2:37
- 213. Chapter 18: We will pass over Dicæarchus,(60) with his contempor... 1:44
- 214. Chapter 19: We may add, that the soul can the more easily escape... 2:10
- 215. Chapter 20: For, if those men now think that they have attained... 2:07
- 216. Chapter 21: It is true, I might expatiate, did the subject requi... 1:34
- 217. Chapter 22: But there are many who labour on the other side of t... 2:31
- 218. Chapter 23: "That which is always moved is eternal; but that whi... 2:16
- 219. Chapter 24: M. Well then, I appeal to you, if the arguments whic... 3:19
- 220. Chapter 25: Should you ask what this leads to, I think we may un... 3:02
- 221. Chapter 26: To me, indeed, it appears that even those studies wh... 2:09
- 222. Chapter 27: As this is my opinion, I have explained it in these... 1:08
- 223. Chapter 28: Of this kind and nature is the intellect of man 3:24
- 224. Chapter 29: In my opinion it is seated in the head, and I can br... 1:33
- 225. Chapter 30: For so indeed he thought himself, and thus he spoke... 2:19
- 226. Chapter 31: For what else is it that we do, when we call off our... 2:44
- 227. Chapter 32: Are you willing to hear then why, even allowing this... 1:52
- 228. Chapter 33: These arguments may be refuted; for they proceed fro... 2:05
- 229. Chapter 34: I am not without hopes myself that such may be our fate 2:41
- 230. Chapter 35: Mention, therefore, some one, who never knew distres... 2:16
- 231. Chapter 36: These calamities are avoided by death, for even thou... 2:58
- 232. Chapter 37: But what occasion is there to philosophize here, in... 1:46
- 233. Chapter 38: Why, then, should Camillus be affected with the thou... 2:09
- 234. Chapter 39: Away, then, with those follies which are little bett... 2:05
- 235. Chapter 40: Let us, then, despise all these follies—for what sof... 1:56
- 236. Chapter 41: "I am not without hopes, O judges, that it is a favo... 2:22
- 237. Chapter 42: Surely I would rather have had this man's soul, than... 2:28
- 238. Chapter 43: What, then, have we not reason to admire Theodorus t... 2:18
- 239. Chapter 44: But all things are full of errors 2:43
- 240. Chapter 45: But what occasion is there to animadvert on the opin... 12:09
- 241. Chapter 1: Neoptolemus, in Ennius, indeed, says, that the study... 2:57
- 242. Chapter 2: But I have answered the detractors of philosophy in... 1:52
- 243. Chapter 3: But let us excite those, if possible, who have had a... 2:12
- 244. Chapter 4: The discourse, then, was introduced in this manner... 2:25
- 245. Chapter 5: A. Should this be the case, is it not to be feared t... 2:13
- 246. Chapter 6: M. First, then, I will speak of the weakness of many... 1:47
- 247. Chapter 7: But Epicurus, indeed, says such things that it shoul... 2:14
- 248. Chapter 8: But let us observe Hercules himself, who was subdued... 2:35
- 249. Chapter 9: Let us see what Æschylus says, who was not only a po... 1:33
- 250. Chapter 11: A. Hitherto you are on my side; I will see to that b... 1:43
- 251. Chapter 12: But why are we angry with the poets 1:51
- 252. Chapter 13: Here are many words to express that by so many diffe... 2:25
- 253. Chapter 14: You know very well, that even though part of your Co... 1:53
- 254. Chapter 15: There is some difference betwixt labour and pain; th... 1:42
- 255. Chapter 16: As to military service, (I speak of our own, not of... 1:41
- 256. Chapter 17: This is certainly Eurypylus himself 3:10
- 257. Chapter 18: I have now said enough about the effects of exercise... 1:53
- 258. Chapter 19: You may inquire, perhaps, how 2:25
- 259. Chapter 20: Will you, when you may observe children at Lacedæmon... 1:40
- 260. Chapter 21: Yet this division does not proceed from ignorance; f... 2:54
- 261. Chapter 22: The man, then, in whom absolute wisdom exists (such... 2:34
- 262. Chapter 23: Even as in a battle, the dastardly and timorous sold... 1:41
- 263. Chapter 24: What! they who would speak louder than ordinary, are... 2:39
- 264. Chapter 25: You may ask, how the case is in peace 2:05
- 265. Chapter 26: Do we not observe, that where those exercises called... 1:45
- 266. Chapter 27: And let this be principally considered, that this be... 2:52
- 267. Chapter 1: What reason shall I assign, O Brutus, why, as we con... 1:40
- 268. Chapter 2: To these we may add the poets; who, on account of th... 2:01
- 269. Chapter 3: But there are more disorders of the mind than of the... 1:42
- 270. Chapter 4: A. My opinion is, that a wise man is subject to grief 1:46
- 271. Chapter 5: Nor were they less ingenious in calling the state of... 2:49
- 272. Chapter 6: I think you said that it was your opinion that a wis... 1:53
- 273. Chapter 7: A man of courage is also full of faith; I do not use... 1:55
- 274. Chapter 8: And from these considerations we may get at a very p... 2:16
- 275. Chapter 9: So that Dionysius of Heraclea is right when, upon th... 2:05
- 276. Chapter 10: Therefore compassion and envy are consistent in the... 2:31
- 277. Chapter 11: The whole cause, then, is in opinion; and this obser... 1:49
- 278. Chapter 12: That descendant of Tantalus, how does he appear to you 1:53
- 279. Chapter 13: Do you, then, think that it can befal a wise man to... 1:20
- 280. Chapter 14: Therefore, this ruminating beforehand upon future ev... 1:52
- 281. Chapter 15: Therefore, as Terence has so well expressed what he... 2:31
- 282. Chapter 16: In the first place, they are wrong in forbidding men... 2:02
- 283. Chapter 17: Should Pythagoras, Socrates, or Plato, say to me, Wh... 2:44
- 284. Chapter 18: You have here a representation of a happy life accor... 3:16
- 285. Chapter 19: Epicurus must admit these arguments; or he must take... 2:19
- 286. Chapter 20: It may be said, What 3:25
- 287. Chapter 21: And indeed the Epicureans, those best of men, for th... 1:30
- 288. Chapter 22: What remains is the opinion of the Cyrenaics, who th... 2:41
- 289. Chapter 23: It may be said, What occasion is there to apply to r... 1:51
- 290. Chapter 24: Is poverty the subject 2:01
- 291. Chapter 25: For this reason Carneades, as I see our friend Antio... 1:53
- 292. Chapter 26: But as besides this opinion of great evil there is t... 1:56
- 293. Chapter 27: Now all these things are done in grief, from a persu... 2:28
- 294. Chapter 28: But what is there more effectual to dispel grief tha... 3:12
- 295. Chapter 29: It may be said, on the other side, Who is so mad as... 2:04
- 296. Chapter 30: But we will speak of this another time: at present i... 1:28
- 297. Chapter 31: Here some people talk of moderate grief; but if such... 2:21
- 298. Chapter 32: But the principal medicine to be applied in consolat... 1:37
- 299. Chapter 33: Nor is that consolation much to be relied on, though... 1:44
- 300. Chapter 34: But the kind of affliction of which I have treated i... 3:02
- 301. Chapter 1: I have often wondered, Brutus, on many occasions, at... 2:23
- 302. Chapter 2: So far we proceed on conjecture 1:46
- 303. Chapter 3: The study of philosophy is certainly of long standin... 1:50
- 304. Chapter 4: But let every one defend his own opinion, for every... 1:53
- 305. Chapter 5: M. Because, Chrysippus and the Stoics, when they dis... 1:45
- 306. Chapter 6: Zeno's definition, then, is this: "a perturbation" (... 2:42
- 307. Chapter 7: But they insist upon it that all perturbations depen... 2:03
- 308. Chapter 8: Enviousness (invidentia), they say, is a grief arisi... 2:09
- 309. Chapter 9: The different species into which they divide pleasur... 1:52
- 310. Chapter 10: Just as distempers and sickness are bred in the body... 1:04
- 311. Chapter 11: What I say here may be distinguished in thought, tho... 2:08
- 312. Chapter 12: But to come to the analogy of the state of body and... 1:30
- 313. Chapter 13: Even as there may be, with respect to the body, a di... 2:45
- 314. Chapter 14: Herein indeed the mind and body are unlike: that tho... 1:39
- 315. Chapter 15: M. Since I have spoken before of virtue in other pla... 1:32
- 316. Chapter 16: For what is not only more miserable, but more base a... 1:16
- 317. Chapter 17: Whoever, then, through moderation and constancy, is... 3:00
- 318. Chapter 18: The man who attempts to set bounds to vice, acts lik... 1:00
- 319. Chapter 19: Why should I say more 2:08
- 320. Chapter 20: They say that even grief, which we have already said... 1:36
- 321. Chapter 21: M. Perhaps I may find something to say,—but I will m... 1:53
- 322. Chapter 22: But we see Ajax in Homer advancing to meet Hector in... 1:41
- 323. Chapter 23: We ought to hold all things here in contempt; death... 1:59
- 324. Chapter 24: Examine the definitions of courage: you will find it... 2:22
- 325. Chapter 25: Anger is in no wise becoming in an orator, though it... 1:32
- 326. Chapter 26: But even envy, detraction, pity, have their use 2:08
- 327. Chapter 27: All these assertions proceed from the roots of error... 2:09
- 328. Chapter 28: But any perturbation of the mind of this sort may be... 2:01
- 329. Chapter 29: Wherefore, as I before said, the philosophers have a... 1:49
- 330. Chapter 30: But fear borders upon grief, of which I have already... 1:02
- 331. Chapter 31: Proceed we now to what are goods—that is to say, to... 2:46
- 332. Chapter 32: Any one who attends the least to the subject will be... 1:18
- 333. Chapter 33: However, we may allow the poets to trifle, in whose... 1:22
- 334. Chapter 34: Now we see that the loves of all these writers were... 1:37
- 335. Chapter 35: Now the cure for one who is affected in this manner... 1:51
- 336. Chapter 36: Anger, too, when it disturbs the mind any time, leav... 1:37
- 337. Chapter 37: Where, then, are they who say that anger has its use 2:32
- 338. Chapter 38: But as the cause of perturbations is now discovered... 1:48
- 339. Chapter 1: This fifth day, Brutus, shall put an end to our Tusc... 2:25
- 340. Chapter 2: But the amendment of this fault, and of all our othe... 1:57
- 341. Chapter 3: But indeed, who can dispute the antiquity of philoso... 2:44
- 342. Chapter 4: Nor was Pythagoras the inventor only of the name, bu... 1:40
- 343. Chapter 5: A. I do not think virtue can possibly be sufficient... 2:45
- 344. Chapter 6: M. I can easily bear with your behaving in this mann... 2:28
- 345. Chapter 7: A. But the other of these two propositions is undeni... 2:43
- 346. Chapter 8: A. I wish that indeed myself; but I want a little in... 2:13
- 347. Chapter 9: This is the point which Theophrastus was unable to m... 3:31
- 348. Chapter 10: But it is the duty of one who would argue accurately... 2:54
- 349. Chapter 11: A. You compel me to be of your opinion; but have a c... 1:28
- 350. Chapter 12: Though Zeno the Cittiæan, a stranger and an inconsid... 1:45
- 351. Chapter 13: From Plato, therefore, all my discourse shall be ded... 2:14
- 352. Chapter 14: To me such are the only men who appear completely ha... 2:36
- 353. Chapter 15: But as the perturbations of the mind make life miser... 2:31
- 354. Chapter 16: I forbear to mention riches, which, as any one, let... 2:21
- 355. Chapter 17: A wicked life has nothing which we ought to speak of... 1:27
- 356. Chapter 18: What hinders Critolaus, then, or that gravest of phi... 1:44
- 357. Chapter 19: Look but on the single consulship of Lælius,—and tha... 2:13
- 358. Chapter 20: Dionysius exercised his tyranny over the Syracusans... 2:33
- 359. Chapter 21: This tyrant, however, showed himself how happy he re... 1:48
- 360. Chapter 22: Yet, how desirous he was of friendship, though at th... 1:12
- 361. Chapter 23: Shall I not, then, prefer the life of Plato and Arch... 2:45
- 362. Chapter 24: But that what I propose to demonstrate to you may no... 2:01
- 363. Chapter 25: A mind employed on such subjects, and which night an... 2:43
- 364. Chapter 26: A. What, when in torments and on the rack 2:05
- 365. Chapter 27: But to dismiss the subtleties of the Stoics, which I... 3:11
- 366. Chapter 28: But let us not dwell too much on these questions, bu... 1:47
- 367. Chapter 29: A. Indeed I cannot; but I should be glad to prevail... 1:29
- 368. Chapter 30: These then are the opinions, as I think, that are he... 1:50
- 369. Chapter 31: For even as trading is said to be lucrative, and far... 2:21
- 370. Chapter 32: But with how little is this man himself satisfied 2:17
- 371. Chapter 33: You see, I imagine, how Epicurus has divided his kin... 2:23
- 372. Chapter 34: For who does not see this, that an appetite is the b... 2:03
- 373. Chapter 35: They report of Timotheus, a famous man at Athens, an... 2:11
- 374. Chapter 36: Let us inquire, then, if obscurity, the want of powe... 2:18
- 375. Chapter 37: If, then, honour and riches have no value, what is t... 2:33
- 376. Chapter 38: Besides the emotions of the mind, all griefs and anx... 1:58
- 377. Chapter 39: When I was a boy, Cn 2:42
- 378. Chapter 40: Now, as to the evil of being deaf: M 2:19
- 379. Chapter 41: This is the very same which is said by Epicurus and... 1:16
- 380. Chapter 42 — Part 1 of 4: But as we are to depart in the morning, let us remem... 9:54
- 381. Chapter 42 — Part 2 of 4: 15 Cæcilius Statius was the predecessor of Terence... 11:06
- 382. Chapter 42 — Part 3 of 4: 56 Epicharmus was a native of Cos, but lived at Mega... 9:06
- 383. Chapter 42 — Part 4 of 4: But Melmoth (Note on the Familiar Letters of Cicero... 5:28
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When a short time ago my friend Atticus(2) was with me at my villa in the district of Cumæ, news was sent us by Marcus(3) Varro, that he had arrived in Rome the day before in the evening, and that if he had not found himself too tired after his journey he should have proceeded at once to see us. But when we heard this, we thought that we ought not to suffer anything to delay our seeing a man so intimately connected with us by an identity of studies, and by a very long standing intimacy and friendship. And so we set out at once to go to see him; and when we were no great distance from his villa we saw him coming towards us; and when we had embraced him, as the manner of friends is, after some time we accompanied him back to his villa. And as I was asking a few questions, and inquiring what was the news at Rome, Never mind those things, said Atticus, which we can neither inquire about nor hear of without vexation, but ask him rather whether he has written anything new; for the muse of Varro has been silent much longer than usual; though I rather suppose he is suppressing for a time what he has written, than that he has been really idle. You are quite wrong, said he; for I think it very foolish conduct in a man to write what he wishes to have concealed. But I have a great work on hand; for I have been a long time preparing a treatise which I have dedicated to my friend here, (he meant me,) which is of great importance, and is being polished up by me with a good deal of care.
I have been waiting to see it a long time, Varro, said I, but still I have not ventured to ask for it. For I heard from our friend Libo, with whose zeal you are well acquainted, (for I can never conceal anything of that kind,) that you have not been slackening in the business, but are expending a great deal of care on it, and in fact never put it out of your hands. But it has never hitherto come into my mind to ask you about it; however now, since I have begun to commit to a durable record those things which I learnt in your company, and to illustrate in the Latin language that ancient philosophy which originated with Socrates, I must ask you why it is that, while you write on so many subjects, you pass over this one, especially when you yourself are very eminent in it; and when that study, and indeed the whole subject, is far superior in importance to all other studies and arts.
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