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Expediency

definition, 2.1, 11.

indispensable, 3.101.

identical with Moral Rectitude, 2.9–10; 3.20, 35, 49, 83, 85, 110.

conflict with Moral Rectitude impossible, 3.9, 11, 18, 34, 40, 48, 72.

incompatible with immorality, 3.35, 77, 81, 82, 87; 2.64.

one standard for both, 3.75.

relative, 2.88.

fg.; possible change of, 3.95.

occasion for doubt, 3.19.

apparent conflict with justice, 3.40, 86.

apparent political expediency vs. humanity, 3.46–49.

in business, 3.50.

fg.; apparent conflict with Fortitude, 3.97–115.

apparent conflict with Temperance, 3.116.

see Maximus.

M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.

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    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.10
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.11
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.64
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.88
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.9
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    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.11
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.110
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.115
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.116
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    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.40
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