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Cicero on Good and Evil

b. 106 BC

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Of evils one should choose the least.

He who so interprets the supreme good as to disjoin it from virtue, and measures it by his own convenience, and not by the standard of right,—he, I say, if he be consistent with himself, and be not sometimes overcome by natural goodness, can cultivate neither friendship, nor justice, nor generosity.

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