Download or read book Cicero's Tusculan Disputations written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: I. On the Contempt of Death; II. On Bearing Pain; III. On Grief; IV. On the Passions; V. Is Virtue Sufficient for Happiness? The theories of the soul inconsistent, and those con sistent, with its continued life. The belief of the ancients in immortality proved by com memorative rites and the honor paid to sepulchres. On this, as on every subject, the common sense of mankind is the law of nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.