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Cicero — On Duties

Study guide to Cicero's On Duties (De Officiis, 44 BCE): a three-book letter from the Roman statesman to his son on what a good person owes others, arguing that what is morally right and what is useful never truly conflict, and testing the claim on tyrants, oaths, the ring of Gyges and the story of Regulus.

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