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