Reading Cicero's work, On Duties, I feel they are absolutely wrong who say that we have become a pagan society. What an insult to Cicero. We are not pagans; we are barbarians.
Particularly surprising was Cicero's section on duties we owe to those who have wronged us, or enemy nations, or this section about foreigners:
"Others again who say that regard should be had for the rights of fellow-citizens, but not of foreigners, would destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind; and, when this is annihilated, kindness, generosity, goodness, and justice must utterly perish; and those who work all this destruction must be considered as wickedly rebelling against the immortal gods."
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