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Upon this all the best men agree, as they prove
by their conduct. For who is so absorbed in the
investigation and study of creation, but that, even
though he were working and pondering over tasks
never so much worth mastering and even though he
thought he could number the stars and measure the
length and breadth of the universe, he would drop
all those problems and cast them aside, if word were
suddenly brought to him of some critical peril to his
country, which he could relieve or repel? And he
would do the same to further the interests of parent
or friend or to save him from danger.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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