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    The Tusculanae Disputationes (also Tusculanae Quaestiones; English: Tusculan Disputations) is a series of five books written by Cicero, around 45 BC,...
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    Douglas, A.E. Tusculan Disputations. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press. 1998. Gigon, O. Gespräche in Tusculum = Tusculanae Disputationes. München: Artemis...
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    the texts of Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, used it in his Tusculanae Disputationes, 5. 61, by which means it passed into the European cultural mainstream...
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    June 23, 2015, retrieved June 23, 2015 Tullius Cicero, Marcus, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.61. (Latin) "Book of Luke", Bible, 12:48. "Hadith 212: Ch. 10...
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    Moralia, 331. The other major accounts of the tale are Cicero Tusculanae Disputationes 5.32.92; Valerius Maximus Dictorum factorumque memorabilium 4.3...
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  • Virgil, Aeneis "Accipere quam facere injuriam praestat." — Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes Quoted from C.G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy Quoted from George...
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  • quoted by Cicero (106–43 BC): Patria est ubicumque est bene (45 BC, Tusculanae Disputationes V, 108). Jean-Jacques Rousseau also alludes to this motto in his...
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    "admirari id est philosophari" (to marvel is to philosophize). Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes 3.30 Horace, Epistulae 1.6.1 Seneca, Epistulae Morales 8.5 Nietzsche...
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  • ("Leave behind [...] the wrongs of Fortune", saying from Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes) doceas iter ("Show us the way", poetry from Virgil's Aeneid) The...
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    dialogues, including De re publica, De finibus bonorum et malorum, Tusculanae Disputationes, De Natura Deorum, De Divinatione, De fato, Academica, and the...
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