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Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations

BOOK II
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You return to your trifling, for you do not remove what made me uneasy.

I know that pain is not vice--you need not inform me of that: but show me that it makes no difference to me whether I am in pain or not.

It has never anything to do, say you, with a happy life, for that depends upon virtue alone; but yet pain is to be avoided.

If I ask, why?
It is disagreeable, against nature, hard to bear, woful and afflicting.
XIII.

Here are many words to express that by so many different forms which we call by the single word evil.


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