greykit.essays — Sources Of Liberty/cicero

• c. 44 BC [sources-of-liberty] On Old Age

  Cicero's dialogue in the voice of Cato the Elder, defending old age against its reputation — one of the most beloved classical texts among the American founders.

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• c. 44 BC [sources-of-liberty] On Friendship

  Cicero's dialogue on friendship, spoken by Laelius — on friendship as the accord of virtue, and a staple of the founders' classical education.

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• c. 54 BC [sources-of-liberty] On the Commonwealth

  Cicero's dialogue on the best form of the state — the mixed constitution, the doctrine of a natural higher law ("True law is right reason"), and the Dream of Scipio. Surviving in fragments, it shaped the founders' idea of a republic.

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