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Cicero: “Robbery, fraud, and adultery, for example, are immoral in deed, but it is not indecent to name them.”

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Robbery, fraud, and adultery, for example, are immoral in deed, but it is not indecent to name them.
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Cicero

Editor's note · Context

Cicero distinguishes between actions that are inherently immoral and the act of naming those actions, arguing that naming them is not indecent.

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