MARCUS: Don’t our friends, the philosophers, put their names on the very books they write condemning the quest for fame?
[Quid? Nostri philosophi nonne in his libris ipsis, quos scribunt de contemnenda gloria, sua nomina inscribunt?]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 15 (1.15) / sec. 34 (1.34) (45 BC) [tr. Habinek (1996)]
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 15 (1.15) / sec. 34 (1.34) (45 BC)[tr. Habinek (1996)] | WIST Quotations
MARCUS: Don't our friends, the philosophers, put their names on the very books they write condemning the quest for fame? [Quid? Nostri philosophi nonne in his libris ipsis, quos scribunt de contemnenda gloria, sua nomina inscribunt?] Cicero suggests …WIST Quotations
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