"It is important to understand that nature creates in parents affection for their children; and parental
affection is the source from which we trace the shared community of the human race … As it is
obvious that it is natural to us to shrink from pain, so it is clear that we derive from nature itself the
motive to love those to whom we have given birth. From this motive is developed the mutual
concern which unites human beings as such. The fact of their common humanity means that one
person should feel another to be his relative."
~ Cicero, On Ends, 3.62-3
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