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Nothing is expedient unless it is morally right; a thing is expedient because it is right, not the reverse
Drawn from what Cicero said
What Cicero actually said
- Cicero Roman statesman, orator and philosopher (106 to 43 BCE)
For nothing can be expedient which is not at the same time morally right; neither can a thing be morally right just because it is expedient, but it is expedient because it is morally right.
Where this was said
↗De Officiis (tr. Walter Miller, 1913)gutenberg.org
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