Tusculan

"Tusculan" discussions; and have heard sounds, and witnessed happiness, such as is not likely to be my lot again.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

Cicero provides an engaging, if not altogether rigorous, discussion of the question of whether virtue is sufficient for happiness in Tusculan Disputations, book V.

Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, books III and IV take up the question of whether it is possible and desirable to rid oneself of the emotions.

Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008

If we reflect that this is the same man who first introduced philosophy into Rome; that his “Tusculan Questions,” and his book “On the Nature of the Gods,” are the two noblest works that ever were written by mere human wisdom, and that his treatise, “De Officiis,” is the most useful one that we possess in morals; we shall find it still more difficult to despise Cicero.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Delphini of the “Tusculan Questions” of Cicero, and of Lucretius, which are two complete courses of irreligion.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Cleanthes, and those excellent philosophers have ever done, to sequester themselves from the tumultuous world, or as in Pliny's villa Laurentana, Tully's Tusculan, Jovius 'study, that they might better vacare studiis et Deo, serve God, and follow their studies.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[3606] The night hath his pleasure; and for the loss of that one sense such men are commonly recompensed in the rest; they have excellent memories, other good parts, music, and many recreations; much happiness, great wisdom, as Tully well discourseth in his [3607] Tusculan questions: Homer was blind, yet who (saith he) made more accurate, lively, or better descriptions, with both his eyes?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

So Tully had his Tusculan, Plinius his Lauretan village, and every gentleman of any fashion in our times hath the like.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

At the beginning of Book IV (1-2) of the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero notes that Pythagoras gained his fame in southern Italy at just the same time that L. Brutus freed Rome from the tyranny of the kings and founded the Republic; there is a clear implication that Pythagorean ideas, which reached Rome from southern Italy, had an influence on the early Roman Republic.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

Tusculan questions, and from the great Lord Shaftesbury.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004