On the record44 BC
The principal thing done, therefore, by those very devotees of the pursuits of learning and science is to apply their own practical wisdom and insight to the service of humanity.
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Cicero
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From his philosophical treatise on moral duties, Cicero asserts that the ultimate purpose of intellectual pursuits is to benefit humankind.
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For they secure one sort of justice, to be sure, in that they do no positive wrong to anyone, but they fall into the opposite injustice; for hampered by their pursuit of learning they leave to their fate those whom they ought to defend.
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