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The title was highlighted as a key source that shaped Jefferson's and other founders' ideas about happiness, grief, and virtue, with Jeffrey Rosen noting its central role in their thinking. He explained that the book served as a manual for dealing with tragedy and achieving a tranquil mind through virtue, and was cited as influential for both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams.
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It was discussed as a source that influenced Jefferson's and other founders' perspectives on happiness and dealing with grief, emphasizing tranquility of mind and virtue.
I just noticed that both Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson had offered for their definition of happiness a quotation from a book by Cicero I'd never heard of called The Tusculent Disputations that said without virtue happiness cannot be.
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It was mentioned as a source for the founders' understanding of happiness, particularly related to dealing with grief and achieving tranquility of mind through virtue. It was a significant book for both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams.
You know it's so incredible how central it was this was Cicero's manual on grief and how to deal with great tragedy and his daughter Tulia had just died he'd just been exiled from Roman politics.