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It is, furthermore, our duty to honour and reverence 1 those whose lives are conspicuous for conduct
in keeping with their high moral standards, and who,
as true patriots, have rendered or are now rendering
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efficient service to their country, just as much as if
they were invested with some civil or military authority; it is our duty also to show proper respect to old
age, to yield precedence to magistrates, to make a
distinction between a fellow-citizen and a foreigner,
and, in the case of the foreigner himself, to discriminate according to whether he has come in an official
or a private capacity. In a word, not to go into details, it is our duty to respect, defend, and maintain
the common bonds of union and fellowship subsisting between all the members of the human race.
1 Special rules.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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