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Tusculan Questions
Book the first
of Contemning Death

Some time ago, when I was in great measure, if not entirely,
freed from the fatigues of the Bar, and the Offices I held in the
Senate, I applied myself again, my Brutus, by your persuasion,
to those Studies, which tho' lay'd aside, on account of the
times, I yet retained in my Mind, and have now resumed
after a long discontinuance; and, since both the Method
and discipline of all those Arts that teach us how to live
agreeably to the rules of Justice, are comprehended under
the study of Wisdom, which is called Philosophy, I thought
it would not be amiss for me to give some illustration of it
in the Latin tongue, not that Philosophy is not to be
expressed in the Greek language, or understood by the —
Greek Masters; but, it was always my Opinion, that —
we have either invented every thing by ourselves with —
more wisdom and penetration than the Greeks, or else
have much improved upon what they had first studied,
tho' they likewise were by no means destitute of Merit;

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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