By Stephen Smoot Among the last works of the great Marcus Tullius Cicero was De Officiis, or “On Duties.” In the last year of his life, with his career work of strengthening the old Republic burning down around him, Cicero addressed this treatise to his son to explain duty. His words’ impact carried his message over the centuries and shaped the ideals of America’s Founding Fathers. In a sense, Cicero’s ideal of duty is the American ideal of duty…
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