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And since
my mind could not be wholly idle, I thought, as I
had been well-read along these lines of thought from
my early youth, that the most honourable way for
me to forget my sorrows would be by turning to
philosophy. As a young man, I had devoted a great
deal of time to philosophy as a discipline; but after
I began to fill the high offices of state and devoted
myself heart and soul to the public service, there
was only so much time for philosophical studies as
was left over from the claims of my friends and of
the state; all of this was spent in reading; I had no
leisure for writing.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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