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On the Good Life

Cicero
Barcode 9780140442441
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Release Date: 22/11/1979

Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Language & Reference
Translator: Michael Grant
Label: Penguin Classics
Contributors: Michael Grant (Translated by)
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

This volume brings together Cicero's tentative and undogmatic reflections on the good life, in which he discusses duty, friendship, the training of a statesman, and the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness.
For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In essays that are articulate, meditative and inspirational, Cicero presents his views upon the significance of friendship and duty to state and family, and outlines a clear system of practical ethics that is at once simple and universal. These works offer a timeless reflection upon the human condition, and a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest thinkers of Ancient Rome.