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Cicero: “Again, there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us.”

On the record44 BC
Again, there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us.
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Cicero

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From his treatise on moral duties, Cicero discusses the ethical obligations owed even to adversaries.

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