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De Officiis

A work by Cicero, first published in 46 BCE

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Every part of life, public or private, carries moral duties, and what is right or wrong depends on them, Good faith, meaning truth and keeping promises and agreements, is the foundation of justice, Disputes should be settled by discussion, resorting to force only when discussion is impossible …

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  • Connections

    Cicero

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Key facts

First published
46 BCE2
Edition korrents quotes
tr. Walter Miller, 19133
Claims on korrents
71

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Every part of life, public or private, carries moral duties, and what is right or wrong depends on them (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Good faith, meaning truth and keeping promises and agreements, is the foundation of justice (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Disputes should be settled by discussion, resorting to force only when discussion is impossible (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Both force and fraud are unworthy of humans, but fraud is the more contemptible (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Fear is a poor safeguard of lasting power; affection can keep it safe (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Lasting glory cannot be won by pretence, empty show or hypocritical talk (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Cicero

Sources

  1. De Officiis (tr. Walter Miller, 1913) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. De Officiis, Q1180721 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. De Officiis (tr. Walter Miller, 1913) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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