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In this way, then, in certain doubtful cases moral
rectitude is defended on the one side, while on the
other side the case of expediency is so presented as
to make it appear not only morally right to do what
seems expedient, but even morally wrong not to do
it. This is the contradiction that seems often to
arise between the expedient and the morally right.
But I must give my decision in these two cases; for1
I did not propound them merely to raise the questions, but to offer a solution.
1 Cicero's decision in the cases.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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