The Civil War that Caesar Won

A History of Mankind (213)

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One of Cicero's strongest insights, and one much appreciated by later thinkers, is that the gods also share in reason, and because of this they can be said to be part of a community with humanity. They don't stand fundamentally apart from humans: they care for us, and punish and reward us as appropriate¹.