← Table of contents
De Officiis

Note BE — BOOK III THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND THE EXPEDIENT

Walter Miller translation

As a Peripatetic, Cratippus insisted that there was natural good as well as moral good; thus health, honour, etc., were good and worth seeking for their own sake, though in less degree than virtue. But the Stoics (and Cicero is now speaking as a Stoic) called all those other blessings not "good" nor "worth seeking for their own sake," but "indifferent."

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings