Cicero: On Duties (De Officiis) in toki pona — with sitelen pona
A practical handbook for moral decision-making in real life—promises, reputation, money, public duty, friendship, and pressure—reimagined in toki pona with sitelen pona for slow, clear rereading.
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Cicero’s On Duties is built for the hardest everyday question: what to do when advantage pulls one way and conscience pulls another. This edition keeps the public-domain English reference text for comparison, then presents a full toki pona translation in two reading layers—Latin script and sitelen pona—so you can reread the same claims with fresh attention. Book I lays the foundation: what moral rightness is, where it comes from, and how it becomes practical rules you can carry into any situation. Book II tests “useful” choices in work, wealth, reputation, favors, and public life. Book III is the stress test: when the honorable and the useful seem to clash, Cicero argues that real advantage can’t be built on injustice—and that “benefit” bought by wrongdoing is a hidden debt paid later by you or the community.