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Book I: Moral Goodness Book II: Expediency Book III: the conflict between the right and the expedient
- Section 1
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- Di-Stinguo
Cicero, Orator, 4.16; Cicero, Topica, 7.31; Cicero, De...
- Ac´tio
The ridicule of Cicero (Cic. Mur. 12), and the formula given...
- Aequi
AEQUI Eth. AEQUI, AEQUI´CULI or AEQUICULA´NI (Αἶκοι and...
- Censor
A general view of these duties is briefly expressed in the...
- Aries
invention of the simple ram to the Carthaginians at the...
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M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis Walter Miller, Ed....
- Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, a Latin Dictionary, Ūtor
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's...
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That moral goodness which we look for in 88 a lofty, high-minded spirit is secured, of course, by moral, not by physical, strength. And yet the body must be trained and so disciplined that it can obey the dictates of judgment and reason in attending to business and in enduring toil.
You see here, Marcus, my son, the very form and as it were the face of Moral Goodness; “and if,” as Plato says, “it could be seen with the physical eye, it would awaken a marvellous love of wisdom.”
That moral goodness which we look for in a lofty, high-minded spirit is secured, of course, by moral, not by physical, strength. And yet the body must be trained and so disciplined that it can obey the dictates of judgment and reason in attending to business and in enduring toil.
Cicero’s only son, with the heritage of his name, Marcus Tullius, seems to have inherited few of his father’s distinguishing characteristics, and not improbably may have borne, in some respects, a close moral kindred to his high-spirited mother.
De Officiis (On Duties, On Obligations, or On Moral Responsibilities) is a 44 BC treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero divided into three books, in which Cicero expounds his conception of the best way to live, behave, and observe moral obligations.
Book I: Moral Goodness Book II: Expediency Book III: the conflict between the right and the expedient
