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But, perhaps, someone may say: “Well, then,
suppose a wise man were starving to death, might
he not take the bread of some perfectly useless
member of society?” [Not at all; for my life is not
more precious to me than that temper of soul which
would keep me from doing wrong to anybody for my
own advantage.] “Or again; supposing a righteous
man were in a position to rob the cruel and inhuman
tyrant Phalaris of clothing, might he not do it to
keep himself from freezing to death?”
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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