Ideas from 'On Fate ('De fato')' by M. Tullius Cicero [44 BCE], by Theme Structure

[found in 'On Fate, Stoic Paradoxes, Oratory' by Cicero (ed/tr Rackham,H.) [Harvard Loeb 1942,978-0-674-99384-6]].

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true?

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

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Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

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If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished