"Tusculum" by Marcus Tuilius Cicero Publisher: East China Normal University Press

Introduction
The Tusculum Discourses is a prose dialogue written by Cicero, an ancient Roman thinker, politician, and rhetorician in 45 BC. It is divided into five volumes. The themes of the five volumes are death, pain, sorrow, emotion, and virtue.
The same number of books consisting of the Tusculum Discourses brings out the [five] themes most necessary for a happy life. For the first is on the contempt of death, the second on the endurance of pain, the third on the alleviation of sorrow, the fourth on other disorders of the soul, and the fifth contains that subject which most illuminates the whole philosophy—for [it] teaches that virtue is self-sufficient for a happy life. (Cicero, On Prophecy 2.2)
The translation and annotation by Gu Zhiying is based on the Latin collated version by M. Pohlenz in the Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, and also refers to several other English and German translations. It is a phased result of the National Social Science Fund Major Project "Translation of the Chinese Edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary" (Project Approval No.: 17ZDA320).