While wrong may be done, then, in either of two ways, that is, by force or by fraud, both are bestial: fraud seems to belong to the cunning fox, force to the lion; both are wholly unworthy of man, but fraud is the more contemptible.
In his philosophical treatise on moral duties, Cicero distinguishes between two forms of wrongdoing, force and fraud, condemning both as beneath human dignity while deeming fraud the more despicable.
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