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Nature has inclined us to love our children, and this is the source and origin of civil society.
Cicero
On Duties (De Officiis), Book I, c. 44 BC
Translated by Walter Miller · Stoic philosophy
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Written in 44 BC in the final weeks of Cicero's life, On Duties is his most comprehensive ethical treatise—a letter to his son Marcus on the foundations of honorable living.

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