Tusculanarum quaestionum, libri quinque, Bind 1

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Perkins et Purves, 1842
 

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Side 10 - Latini dicuntur scripti inconsiderate ab optimis illis quidem viris, sed non satis eruditis. Fieri autem potest ut recte quis sentiat et id, quod sentit, polite eloqui non possit...
Side 7 - Graecis et litteris et doctoribus percipi non posset, sed meum semper iudicium fuit omnia nostros aut invenisse per se sapientius quam Graecos aut accepta ab illis fecisse meliora, quae quidem digna statuissent, in quibus 2 elaborarent.
Side 18 - Ut multi ante veteres, proximo autem Aristoxenus, musicus idemque philosophus, ipsius corporis intentionem quandam ; velut in cantu et fidibus quae harmonia dicitur, sic ex corporis totius natura et figura, varios motus cieri, tamquam in cantu sonos.
Side 119 - Sunt enim ingeniis nostris semina innata virtutum, quae si adolescere liceret, ipsa nos ad beatam vitam natura perduceret...
Side 34 - Itaque saepe aut cogitatione aut aliqua vi morbi impediti, apertis atque integris et oculis et auribus nee videmus nee audimus : ut facile intelligi possit, animum et videre et audire, non eas partes, quae quasi fenestrae sunt animi ; quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat, et adsit.
Side 141 - The first teaches us how to contemn the terrors of death, and to look upon it as a blessing, rather than an evil ; the second, to support pain and affliction with a manly fortitude; the third, to appease all our complaints and...
Side 45 - Nee vero deus ipse, qui intelligitur a nobis, alio modo intelligi potest, nisi mens soluta quaedam et libera, segregata ab omni concretione mortali, omnia sentiens et movens, ipsaque praedita motu sempiterno.
Side 178 - The Stoics fancied that the soul was a subtilized, fiery substance, which survived the body after death, and subsisted a long time, yet not eternally, but was to perish at last in the general conflagration ; in which they allowed, as Cicero says, the only thing that was hard to conceive, its...
Side 191 - After which, the angel of darkness and his disciples shall go into a world of their own, where they shall suffer in everlasting darkness, the punishment of their evil deeds; and the angel of light and his disciples shall also go into a world of their own, where they shall receive, in everlasting light, the reward due...
Side 49 - Itaque commemorat, ut cygni, qui non sine causa Apollini dicati sint, sed quod ab eo divinationem habere videantur, qua providentes quid in morte boni sit cum cantu et voluptate moriantur, sic omnibus bonis et doctis esse faciendum.

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