greykit.essays — #1st-century-bc
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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. 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. 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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