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This, then, is a fine saying of Plato's: “Not only
must all knowledge that is divorced from justice be
called cunning rather than wisdom,” he says, “but
even the courage that is prompt to face danger, if it
is inspired not by public spirit, but by its own selfish
purposes, should have the name of effrontery rather
than of courage.” And so we demand that men
who are courageous and high-souled shall at the
same time be good and straightforward, lovers of
truth, and foes to deception; for these qualities are
the centre and soul of justice.
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M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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