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There are some also who, either from zeal in1
attending to their own business or through some
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sort of aversion to their fellow-men, claim that they
are occupied solely with their own affairs, without
seeming to themselves to be doing anyone any injury.
But while they steer clear of the one kind of injustice,
they fall into the other: they are traitors to social
life, for they contribute to it none of their interest,
none of their effort, none of their means.
1 b. Self-interest.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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