There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Works
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De Amicitia
De Senectute, De Amicitia
On Duties
On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination
On the laws
On the Republic/On the Laws
Philippics
Selected Works
Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
Tusculan Disputations
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.