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  • The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.44
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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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