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“For such is the work of philosophy: it cures souls, draws off vain anxieties, confers freedom from desires, drives away fears.
— Cicero
Roman statesman and philosopher
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC), Book II, Chapter IV; translation by Andrew P. Peabody
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