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And yet we are not required to sacrifice our own1
interests and surrender to others what we need for
ourselves, but each one should consider his own
interests, as far as he may without injury to his
neighbour's. “When a man enters the foot-race,”
says Chrysippus with his usual aptness, “it is his
duty to put forth all his strength and strive with all
his might to win; but he ought never with his foot
to trip, or with his hand to foul a competitor. Thus
in the stadium of life, it is not unfair for anyone to
seek to obtain what is needful for his own advantage,
but he has no right to wrest it from his neighbour.”
1 (2) individual and general interests.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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