![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, just as we use language like this in speaking of what is honourable, so we use the opposite in speaking of what is base : there is nothing so revolting, nothing so despicable, nothing more unworthy of a human being. What I want to say in fact is that far the best for man is that which is desirable in and for itself, has its source in virtue or rather is based on virtue, is of itself praiseworthy, and in fact I should prefer to describe it as the only rather than the highest good. By all this number of terms there is only one thing that I want to express, but I employ a number, in order to make my meaning as clear as possible. ![]() Nature in fact not only puts up with but even demands it for she offers nothing more excellent, nothing more desirable than honour, than renown, than distinction, than glory. "It is unbearable nature cannot put up with it."īoys endure from love of fame, others endure for shame's sake, many from fear, and yet are we afraid that nature cannot put up with what so many have endured in such a number of different places? Will you, though you have seen boys in Lacedaemon, young men at Olympia, barbarians in the arena submitting to the heaviest blows and enduring them in silence - will you, if some pain happen to give you a twitch, cry out like a woman and not endure resolutely and calmly? Who reject anal penetration, promiscuity, and effeminacy UNDERSTANDING THE ETHICAL SUPREMACY OF MANLINESS IN CICERO'S TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS ![]()
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