MARCUS: For I speak of a man of learning and erudition, for whom to live, is to think.
[Loquor enim de docto homine et erudito, cui vivere est cogitare.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 5, ch. 38 (5.38) / sec. 111 (5.111) (45 BC) [tr. Otis (1839)]
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