Cicero's Tusculan Disputations : Also Treatises On the Nature of the Gods ; And On the Commonwealth
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And little short of this misery is one who dreads some approaching evil, and who, through faintheartedness, is under continual suspense. The poets, to express the greatness of this evil, imagine a stone to 142 THE T0SCULAN DISPUTATIONS.
hang over the head of Tantalus, as a punishment for his wickedness, his pride, and liis boasting. And this is the common punishment of folly; for there hangs over the head of every one whose mind revolts from reason some similar fear. And as those perturbations ...of the mind, grief and fear, are of a most wasting nature, so those two others, though of a more merry cast (I mean lust, which is always coveting something with eagerness, and empty mirth, which is an exulting joy), differ very little from madness. Hence you may understand what sort of person he is whom we call at one time moderate, at another mod- est or temperate, at another constant and virtuous ; while sometimes we include all these names in the word frugal- ity, as the crown of all ; for if that word did not include all virtues, it would never have been proverbial to say that a frugal man does everything rightly.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And little short of this misery is one who dreads some approaching evil, and who, through faintheartedness, is under continual suspense. The poets, to express the greatness of this evil, imagine a stone to 142 THE T0SCULAN DISPUTATIONS.
hang over the head of Tantalus, as a punishment for his wickedness, his pride, and liis boasting. And this is the common punishment of folly; for there hangs over the head of every one whose mind revolts from reason some similar fear. And as those perturbations ...of the mind, grief and fear, are of a most wasting nature, so those two others, though of a more merry cast (I mean lust, which is always coveting something with eagerness, and empty mirth, which is an exulting joy), differ very little from madness. Hence you may understand what sort of person he is whom we call at one time moderate, at another mod- est or temperate, at another constant and virtuous ; while sometimes we include all these names in the word frugal- ity, as the crown of all ; for if that word did not include all virtues, it would never have been proverbial to say that a frugal man does everything rightly.
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