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Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 5, ch. 15 (5.15) / sec. 43 (45 BC) [tr. Davie (2017)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations
Wretchedness is caused by emotional disturbances, and the happy life by calmness, and disturbance takes two forms -- anxiety and fear in expecting evils, ecstatic joy and lustful thoughts in misunderstanding good things, all of which are at variance with with wisdom and reason. Accordingly, if a man possesses self-control…