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To proceed
then, let us interpret the word “virtue” by the
familiar usage of our everyday life and speech, and
not in pompous phrase apply to it the precise
standards which certain philosophers use; and let
us include in the number of good men those who
are so considered—men like Paulus, Cato, Gallus,
Scipio, and Philus—who satisfy the ordinary standard
of life; but let us pass by such men as are nowhere
to be found at all.1
1 The ideally perfect men of the Stoics.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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