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Both force and fraud are unworthy of humans, but fraud is the more contemptible
Drawn from what Cicero said
What Cicero actually said
- Cicero Roman statesman, orator and philosopher (106 to 43 BCE)
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.
Where this was said
↗De Officiis (tr. Walter Miller, 1913)gutenberg.org
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