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Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations

BOOK II
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He will turn over in his mind all the different kinds of honor.

Zeno of Elea will occur to him, who suffered everything rather than betray his confederates in the design of putting an end to the tyranny.

He will reflect on Anaxarchus, the pupil of Democritus, who, having fallen into the hands of Nicocreon, King of Cyprus, without the least entreaty for mercy or refusal, submitted to every kind of torture.

Calanus the Indian will occur to him, an ignorant man and a barbarian, born at the foot of Mount Caucasus, who committed himself to the flames by his own free, voluntary act.

But we, if we have the toothache, or a pain in the foot, or if the body be anyways affected, cannot bear it.


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