Wednesday, March 01, 2023
A Reason to Live
Cicero, Letters to His Friends 9.8.2 (to Varro; tr. W. Glynn Williams):
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But as it is, what reason have we for wanting to live at all, unless we have these studies? For myself, even with them, I hardly want to live; if I am robbed of them, then not even hardly.
nunc autem quid est, sine his (sc. studiis) cur vivere velimus? mihi vero cum his ipsis vix, his autem detractis ne vix quidem.
