Euroopa ideede ajaloo eksami kordamisküsimused
property. Therefore, inasmuch as in each case some of those things which by nature had been common property became
the property of individuals, each one should retain possession of that which has fallen to his lot; and if anyone appropriates
to himself anything beyond that, he will be violating the laws of human society. But since, as Plato has admirably
expressed it, we are not born for ourselves alone, but our country claims a share of our being, and our friends a share; and
since, as the Stoics hold, everything that the earth produces is created for man's use; and as men, too, are born for the sake
of men, that they may be able mutually to help one another; in this direction we ought to follow Nature as our guide, to
contribute to the general good by an interchange of acts of kindness, by giving and receiving, and thus by our skill, our
industry, and our talents to cement human society more closely together, man to man. The foundation of justice, moreover,