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Is Virtue Important?
Socrates thought a lot about that. You want a politician who's great, who's disciplined and cares about the common good. But in some ways, it's just as if his overwhelming sense of virtue constrains him or limits him. Cicero is one of the very few examples in antiquity of not only somebody who took philosophy at heart but also tried to practice it.