/lit/ - Literature

Where do I start with him?

How do I get better at rhetoric? My writing lacks an edge that I think rhetorical knowledge would fix.

Markoos Toolyoos Keekero

>>17979006
>>17977905
>suicide is only done by deranged people
No, you are nihilist cowards, too pacified and domesticated to take your very own life into your very own hands. You want anything and everything else, whether it be nature or society, to make the ultimate decisions concerning your very own life for you. None of you will ever have a better understanding of life and death than Mishima; and this is not asserting that Mishima was totally flawless or omniscient, or free from passion. This is asserting that you are blind sleepwalkers who will never truly live the extremities of life and death. You will continue sleepwalking until your life is snatched away, whether in your sleep, in a car accident, or from cancer.

>Epicureanism
>Unoriginal in its natural philosophy
>Vague and meaningless in its ethic
>Take the academic skeptic pill instead anon

Where do I start with Cicero? He was a prolific writer and orator, so it's unclear to me where would be a good place to start

>me and my 8yo brother started reading the dutch variant of AVSI on Cicero today, with me explaining the difference between republicanism and autocracy and on small trivia
>as a return he gets 1h of electronics use for 6 pages of reading
Anticipating the brutal IQmogging of hapless elementary school teachers (female) in the near future. Or he'll become known as the aspie freak who namedrops literal-whos

Why is there no collected works of Cicero published?

>>16194782
Latin.

>>16194784
No.

>>15476043
>Rome is too big to fail, it will not break unless the entire world breaks
>the French empire is too big to fail, it will not break unless the entire world breaks
>the British empire is too big to fail, it will not break unless the entire world breaks
>the USSR is too big to fail, it will not break unless the entire world breaks

Was he based?

Was he virtuous?

Was he a stoic?

Was he Catholic?

Which of his works should I read?

Tags: Marcus, Tullius, Cicero, Tully