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Since, however, in Book One we derived moral
duties from the four sources of moral rectitude, let us
continue the same fourfold division here in pointing
out how hostile to virtue are those courses of conduct which seem to be, but really are not, expedient.
We have discussed wisdom, which cunning seeks to
counterfeit, and likewise justice, which is always
expedient. There remain for our discussion two
divisions of moral rectitude, the one of which is
discernible in the greatness and pre-eminence of a
superior soul, the other, in the shaping and regulation of it by temperance and self-control.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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