Sometimes he drags on a bit, and the language can get stuffy…but Cicero was a brilliant thinker. Will definitely be reading more from him.

It’s Cicero, for God’s sake, how can it merit anything other than five whole stars?

Ревью ту кам, хочу сидеть с Цицероном на римской вилле и за кувшином вина стебаться над эпикурейцами!

Genuinely the best introduction I’ve ever read in any philosophical book. It contains a section called arguments which breaks down the entire work into a list of matters discussed and where they occur.

So, if you are curious about whether this work would interest you take a look at this section on t

The Why of Pain
19 June 2020

I must say that some of these ancient philosophical texts can be pretty difficult to read, especially if the translation is written in an older form of English (namely 19th Century English as opposed to modern 21st Century English). Yeah, I did actually find this work to

Not my favorite work of his but still much better than anything modern „philosophers“ bring to the table.

It seems sadly fitting that I would only get to reading this classic of Stoic philosophy in the immediate aftermath of the APA declaring stoic behavior a psychological problem. This book is outstanding, and those who wish to preserve the intellectual fight against postmodernity could do much worse t

“Don’t our friends the philosophers put their names on the very books they write condemning the quest for fame?”