Torquatus
historical figure · 2 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
I · he · our school · the wise man · you
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The unnamed first-person speaker of this passage, an adherent of Epicureanism addressing an interlocutor (Cicero) and defending Epicurus against the charge of being unlearned and hedonistic.
But there are some Epicureans, a little more timid in the face of your reproaches, yet acute enough, who fear that, if we hold friendship to be sought for the sake of our own pleasure, the whole of friendship may seem, as it were, to limp.
Now we admit that pleasures and pains of the mind arise from the pleasures and pains of the body — and so I grant, as you were just saying, that the case goes against any of our school who think otherwise, of whom indeed I see there are many, but unlearned.
if our whole discourse confirms all its credit by the senses — that is, by witnesses uncorrupted and entire;
Tusculan Disputations
Roman hero who won his surname by stripping a torque from a defeated Gaul without acting from anger.
I do not think that even that Torquatus, who invented this surname, was angry when he stripped the torque from the Gaul;