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Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations

BOOK III
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I shall advance something further.

I shall not treat of grief alone, though that indeed is the principal thing; but, as I originally proposed, of every perturbation of the mind, as I termed it; disorder, as the Greeks call it: and first, with your leave, I shall treat it in the manner of the Stoics, whose method is to reduce their arguments into a very small space; afterward I shall enlarge more in my own way.
VII.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I do not use the word confident, because, owing to an erroneous custom of speaking, that word has come to be used in a bad sense, though it is derived from confiding, which is commendable.

But he who is full of faith is certainly under no fear; for there is an inconsistency between faith and fear.


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