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Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations

BOOK IV
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Boastfulness is a pleasure that consists in making an appearance, and setting off yourself with insolence .-- The subordinate species of lust they define in this manner: Anger is a lust of punishing any one who, as we imagine, has injured us without cause.
Heat is anger just forming and beginning to exist, which the Greeks call [Greek: thymosis].

Hatred is a settled anger.

Enmity is anger waiting for an opportunity of revenge.

Discord is a sharper anger conceived deeply in the mind and heart.

Want an insatiable lust.


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