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Quotation from The Republic and The Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
“True law is right reason conformable to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain us from evil”
The Republic and The Laws, Republic, Book III, ch. 22, trans. Francis Barham
Laelius's reply to the sceptical case of Philus; the passage survives because Lactantius quoted it.
Citation: "True law is right reason conformable to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain us from evil" — Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Republic and The Laws, Republic, Book III, ch. 22, trans. Francis Barham. (id cicero-republic-and-laws-q3)
Portrait: Francesco Bartolozzi - Cicero - B1977.14.19547 - Yale Center for British Art, Francesco Bartolozzi, CC0.
