Download or read book Cicero's Five Books De Finibus, Or Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion (Classic Reprint) written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cicero's Five Books De Finibus, or Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion And that you may live long as admired an example, as you have always lived, of religion, piety, goodness, candour, and pru dence, happy in yourself and yours, happy in the success of your designs and afairs, happy in the exercise and use of your learn ing, happy in the neighbourhood and conver sation of Mr. Dodwell, (one of the greatest felicities I can wish you in this world) ha py in the acquisition and enjoyment Cf w at ever as a good Christian and a wise man you have reason to think valuable here, until you attain the completion of human happi ness in a better state, is the prayer of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.