An idea from On Duties

A Greek teacher, Panaetius, planned 3 questions: what is right, what is useful, and what to do when they clash. He never wrote the third. The father finishes it on one rule: “expediency can never conflict with moral rectitude.” Expediency here just means your own advantage.

From On Duties by Cicero

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