As Thomas Hobbes is famously quoted for saying, "Life is lonely, poor, nasty, brutish and short." ... They are a threat to how you want to live your life and a threat to your life. ... There is a modern law theorist by the name of Lon Fuller who does not follow in the same beliefs as Cicero and Saint Thomas Aquinas. ... That is all fine and good if you are Catholic or Christian, but what if your beliefs do not lie in God? ... Laws are made for people to follow so that we can live a civilized life together. ...

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Petrarch opted out of studying law in order to devote his life to literature. Written text itself was epitomized in classical Latin literature and he believed that the prose of Cicero was the ultimate model. ... The rhetoric of Latin figures, such as Cicero and Seneca, encouraged good will, and Petrarch himself opposed Aristotle, claiming "he would rather will the good than know the truth, which in any case is unknowable " ("Humanism: Italy" 1). ... By "putting the good of the state above all preconceived systems of morality "a prince can sustain his rule" (Kekewich 234). ... As a result, hu...

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