Name: Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN: 978-1420934366

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Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

By Marcus Tullius Cicero 14 Feb, 2020

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In this collection, we find two of Cicero's philosophical treatises, "On Friendship" and "On Old Age". In Cicero's treatise on friendship, we learn of his belief that true friendship with someone is derived from complete honesty, truth, and trust. Cicero placed a high value upon friendship and saw it as a relationship of mutual benefit in which friends do things for each other without expectation of repayment. In a related philosophical writing on the human condition, the treatise on old age, Cicero writes of his views on getting older and ultimately death. Less

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is consi...

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