Taking from someone to profit by their loss “is more contrary to nature than is death or poverty or pain.” If each limb of a body drained its neighbors to grow strong, the whole body would die. Society fails the same way.
From On Duties by Cicero
Taking from someone to profit by their loss “is more contrary to nature than is death or poverty or pain.” If each limb of a body drained its neighbors to grow strong, the whole body would die. Society fails the same way.
From On Duties by Cicero
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