clodiuspulcher:

“Moreover, those who say that concern must be had for fellow-citizens, but denied for foreigners, they tear apart the communal society of humanity, with this ripped away, basic kindness, benevolence, generosity, and justice are also wholly destroyed, and those who destroy these things indeed must be judged as impious, hostile to the immortal gods”

Marcus Tullius Cicero, de Officiis, 3.28

Qui autem civium rationem dicunt habendam, externorum negant, ii dirimunt communem humani generis societatem; qua sublata beneficentia, liberalitas, bonitas, iustitia funditus tollitur; quae qui tollunt, etiam adversus deos immortales impii iudicandi sunt.

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