Adamo Rossi, a well-known scholar, was originally suspected but exonerated after a lengthy administrative and judicial investigation. The culprit in the theft was never found. Suspicion fell on a janitor who a few years later became well-to-do enough to build for himself a fine house. The former janitor's house was nicknamed "Villa Cicero" by residents of Perugia. The 2002 George Mason Memorial in Washington, D.C. includes De Officiis as an element of the statue of a seated Mason. De Officiis continues to be one of the most popular of Cicero's works because of its style, and because of its depiction of Roman political life under the Republic. Quotes ...and brave he surely cannot possibly be that counts pain the supreme evil, nor temperate he that holds pleasure to be the supreme good. () (I, 5) Not for us alone are we born; our country, our friends, have a share in us. () (I, 22) Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. () (I, 41) Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel defer to praise. () (I, 77) It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow-men; of considerateness, not to wound their feelings; and in this the essence of propriety is best seen. () (I, 99) Is anyone unaware that Fortune plays a major role in both success and failure? () (II, 19) Of evils choose the least. () (III, 102) Citations References Further reading Why Cicero's De Officiis? By Ben R. Schneider, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English at Lawrence University. Atkins, E. M.; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Griffin, M. T., Cicero: On Duties (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), Cambridge University Press (1991) Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Grant, Michael, "Selected Works", Penguin Classics (1960) Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Miller, Walter, "On Duties", Loeb Classical Library No. 30 (1913) Cicero; Walsh, P. G., On Obligations, Oxford University Press (2001) Dyck, Andrew R., A Commentary on Cicero, De Officiis, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press (1996) Griffin, Miriam T. and Margaret E. Atkins, Cicero. On Duties, Cambridge University Press (1991) Nelson, N. E., Cicero's De Officiis in Christian Thought, University of Michigan Studies in Language and Literature 10 (1933) Newton, Benjamin Patrick, Marcus Tullius Cicero: On Duties (Agora Editions), Cornell University Press (2016) External links De Officiis in Latin and English at the Perseus Project De Officiis – Latin with English