The Tusculanan Disputations

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Excerpt from The Tusculanan Disputations: Book First, The Dream of Scipio, And Extracts From the Dialogues on Old Age and Friendship, With English NotesTogether With the first book of the T usculan Dispa tations, the editor has here presented the Somnium Scipi onis, and extracts from the dialogues De Senectute and De Amicitia, thus combining all the passages in the works of Cicero in Which the question of the Immortality of the Soul is discussed. Besides the intrinsic interest and value of these treatises as containing the maturest decisions of old philosophy upon a question of universal and nearest concern, they are adorned with a grace of' style and happiness of illustration characteristic of their author and worthy of their subject. None of the philo sophical works of Cicero holds a higher rank than the Tusculan Disputations for beauty of language and eleva tion of sentiment, in the Dream of Scipio the lively nar retive and poetic coloring enhance the admiration Which the loftiness of its Views cannot fail to excite, and the dialogues on Old Age and Friendship have always been regarded as treasuries of thought and models of compo sitiou.* With the exception of the Somnium Scipionis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.