Book · 44 BC · Nonfiction

On Duties (De Officiis)

Name: On Duties (De Officiis)
Author: Cicero

Harvard University Press · 423 pages

★ 7.4 editorial score

Cicero tells his son what a decent person owes everyone: keep your word, harm nobody, and stop believing a shameful act can pay. Real Roman cases of profit against honesty carry the argument.

Genre

Political philosophy

Subject

Duty Ethics Virtue Statesmanship

Setting

Rome

Time

44 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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