Cicero


 * Cicero **** Book II **
 * The government to **** Cicero **** meant that the government had to choose between their morals or their self-interest. These are the duties for the government. The government has to choose what is right for the people. So that everybody can help each other and get along more easily but some people in the government make things for their own good. **** Cicero **** can explain "... how we can elicit and call forth the good will of men for our benefit (pg.4)," so the government instead of making the good for other will make things so it benefits the upperclassmen. **
 * Cicero **** Book II **
 * Individual choosing between self-interest and virtue. The action of choosing between a choice that is moral and one that is beneficial to one self. ** ** Cicero **** talks abut how being an individual has certain duties so that one can be a good individual. One of these duties is for people to help each other. He thought that "... men can be of the greatest service to men" because helping each other will help get through life easier (pg.3). He ** ** also thought that one can not be anybody without the help of other people. So for one to decide if to help or not to help others, one must also know the right and wrong and when to purchase a good deed. **