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Cicero: “For, in the first place, injustice is fatal to social life and fellowship between man and man.”

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For, in the first place, injustice is fatal to social life and fellowship between man and man.
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Cicero

Editor's note · Context

Cicero asserts that injustice fundamentally undermines the fabric of social life and human fellowship.

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