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Res Publica
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What does Res Publica mean?
noun
- The common good, as identified with the wider state; the commonwealth, the body politic.
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A sympathetic action, for instance, is neither called good nor bad, moral nor immoral, in the best period of the Romans; and should it be praised, a sort of resentful disdain is compatible with this praise, even at the best, directly the sympathetic action is compared with one which contributes to the welfare of the whole, to the RES PUBLICA.