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Tusculan Disputations Quotes by Cicero: Context & Meanings

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“For I now call a freedom from anxiety a security, on which freedom a happy life depends.”
Voice: Dialogue speaker · M. (Cicero’s dialogue persona)

Cicero treats inner security as freedom from destabilizing anxiety, making mental steadiness an important condition of a genuinely happy and self-directed life.

Source note: Tusculan Disputations, Book V; Cicero discusses security as freedom from anxiety within a larger argument about virtue, stability, and the conditions of happiness.