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Quotation from On Duties (De Officiis) by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“nothing is expedient which is not likewise virtuous”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (spoken by Cicero (reporting Panaetius))

On Duties (De Officiis), Book III, ch. VII, trans. Cyrus R. Edmonds

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The thesis of the whole third book: an apparent conflict between the useful and the honourable is only apparent.

Citation: "nothing is expedient which is not likewise virtuous" — Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties (De Officiis), Book III, ch. VII, trans. Cyrus R. Edmonds. (id cicero-on-duties-q7)

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