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Title:  The five days debate at Cicero's house in Tusculum between master and sophister.
Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
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place, I enquire, what imports that Ballance of Critolaus? Who having cast the goods of the mind into one Scale; those of the Body and Fortune into the other, thinks that the Scale of former good does so far out∣weigh, that it would fetch up Sea and Land if it were thrown in to the opposite towards making even weight.(a) Under our conduct Spartas Pride is shav'd.] Part of the Epitaph on Epaminondas, who had over-run Sparta for five hundred years untouch'd. As a Virgin led into Capti∣vity, and shav'd for Bondage; he Peopled Messina with a Colony, Fortify'd Thebes, and left Greece in full Freedom.SECT. XVIII. The same was also maintain'd by the more reso∣lute Peripateticks.WHAT then debars either him, or Xenocrates also, the gravest of Philosophers extolling Vertue, and depressing all other things, so much as to vilifie them, from placing not only an Happy, but also most Happy Life, in Vertue? which un∣less it hold good, an utter ruine of the Vertues will ensue; for to whom trouble is incident, Fear must be so likewise of necessity; for Fear is the anxious expectation of future Trouble; and he to whom Fear, there is also incident Irresolution, Timor∣ousness, Consternation, Cowardise, and by con∣sequent for the man sometimes to be conquer'd, nor to think himself concern'd in that admonition of Atreus.0