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Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (-45)
For such is the work of philosophy: it cures souls, draws off vain anxieties, confers freedom from desires, drives away fears.
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (-45)
A: I will now follow Reason whithersoever she shall lead me.
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (-45)
How few philosophers are to be found who are such in character, so ordered in soul and in life, as reason demands; who regard their teaching not as a display of knowledge, but as the rule of life; who obey themselves, and submit to their own decrees!
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (-45)
What! You would convict me from my own words, and bring against me what I had said or written elsewhere. You may act in that manner with those who dispute by established rules. We live from hand to mouth, and say anything that strikes our mind with probability, so that we are the only people who are really at liberty."
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (-45)