For can occasions for worry, anxiety, fear by day and by night, and a life all beset with plots and perils be of advantage to anybody?
Cicero: “For can occasions for worry, anxiety, fear by day and by night, and a life all beset with plots and perils be of…”
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Cicero
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Cicero asks a rhetorical question in his philosophical work, suggesting that a life filled with worry, anxiety, and peril cannot truly be advantageous.
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