‘A self-indulgent misuse of leisure and writing’? How Not to Write Philosophy: Did Cicero Get it Right?

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Abstract (... there are said to be many books in Latin now, written injudiciously by men of the finest character indeed, but without the right breadth of accomplishment; for it can happen that a man has the right ideas and yet cannot put what he thinks into words in a polished fashion. To commit one’s thoughts to writing, however, without being able to give them a proper arrangement or exposition or to win the reader over with any charm is the behaviour of someone who makes a self-indulgent misuse of leisure and writing.)

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