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And indeed these duties under discussion in
these books the Stoics call “mean duties”;1 they are2
a common possession and have wide application; and
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many people attain to the knowledge of them through
natural goodness of heart and through advancement
in learning. But that duty which those same Stoics
call “right” is perfect and absolute and “satisfies all
the numbers,”3 as that same school says, and is
attainable by none except the wise man.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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