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《Cicero’s Philosophy：Natural Law》

Nature not only endowed man himself with intelligence, but also gave him the senses as guides and messengers, as well as the obscure, insufficiently elucidated conceptions of many things as a foundation of knowledge… All of this is really a preface…, and its purpose is to make it more easily understood that justice is inherent in nature… It has been the opinion of the wisest of men that law is not a product of man’s thought, nor is it any enactment of peoples, but rather something eternal that rules the whole universe by its wisdom in command and prohibition. Thus they have been accustomed to say that law is the primal and ultimate mind of god, whose reason directs all things either by compulsion or restraint (On The Laws, 1.9.26; 1.12.34; 2.4.8).

大自然不仅赋予人类智慧，而且赋予人类作为向导和使者的感官，以及作为知识基础的模糊的、未被充分阐明的许多事物的概念……所有这一切都是一个开端……,其目的是为了使它更容易理解,正义在本质上是固有的…这是最聪明的人的意见,法律并不是一个人的思想的产物,也不是任何制定的民族,而是统治整个宇宙的永恒的智慧在命令和禁止。因此，他们习惯于说，法律是上帝最初的和最终的思想，上帝的理性以强制或约束的方式指导一切事物(论法律，1.9.26;1.12.34;2.4.8)。