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Pushed out of public life, Marcus Tullius Cicero turns to a question that reaches beyond politics: what does a good person owe to others? In On Duties, he addresses his son Marcus, who is studying philosophy in Athens, with advice on living and acting with integrity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe argument moves through three parts: what is honourable, what is useful, and what to do when they seem to clash. Drawing on the Stoic thinker Panaetius, Roman history and his own career, Cicero tests the choices that shape public and private life. 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