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De Officiis — Marcus Tullius Cicero

De Officiis

Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 350 pages

Cicero's De Officiis is a philosophical essay in the form of a letter to his son Marcus. It examines moral duties, honor, expediency, and the conflicts between them. It is worth listening to as a clear introduction to classical ethics and Roman ideas of public and private responsibility.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Inconsistencies in hyphenation have not been corrected, punctuation has been silently corrected. A list of corrections to the text can be found at the end of the document.

Sculpture of Cicero

M. TULLIUS CICERO.

FROM THE JAMES LOEB COLLECTION.

CICERO
DE OFFICIIS
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
WALTER MILLER
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LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
MCMXIII

CONTENTS
Introduction
Page ix
Bibliography
xiii
Book I
1
Book II
167
Book III
269
Index
405

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Contents

  1. DE OFFICIIS
  2. CONTENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  5. BOOK I MORAL GOODNESS
  6. BOOK II EXPEDIENCY
  7. BOOK III THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND THE EXPEDIENT
  8. INDEX
  9. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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