TY - BOOK AU - Cicero,Marcus Tullius AU - Miller,Walter TI - De Officiis AV - PA PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Ethics -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Officiis; Release date is 2014-09-29; Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "De Officiis" by Marcus Tullius Cicero is a treatise written in 44 BC, during the final months of Cicero's life. Addressed as a letter to his son studying in Athens, this three-part work explores how to live morally and fulfill one's duties. Cicero examines what is honorable, what serves one's advantage, and how to navigate apparent conflicts between virtue and personal gain. Drawing on Stoic philosophy and Roman history, he argues that true virtue and expediency never truly conflict—only seeming to do so. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47001 ER -