Cicero Against Equality
“Nature has made us unequal.”
In De Legibus (“On the Laws”), Cicero argues that inequality is not an injustice to be corrected but a fact imposed by nature.
Justice, for him, is not the equal distribution of power or honor, but their proportionate assignment according to capacity.
Law does not exist to deny the harsh structure of life, but to impose form upon it.
A republic collapses when it treats unequal men as equals.
It endures only when differences of capacity are acknowledged as realities to be governed, not errors to be erased.
Nature does not endow all men alike, and political order survives only by enforcing discipline upon that truth.
Thank you
And they call one hateful for seeing nature for what it is. Spiteful mutants indeed. I wonder if it ever crosses the mind that seeing a truth is not the same as proclaiming self superiority as an individual? An anthropomorphic metaphor… A mouse can know the truth and yet may not claim the strength of a lion. However I suppose when it comes intelligence or ability to think for oneself there may be an inherent superiority in those that “notice”.