Suum cuique and capabilities, to serve the country and the society as a whole. Also, everyone should receive "his own" (e.g., rights) and not be deprived of "his own" (e.g., property) (433e). The Roman author, orator and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) popularised the Latin phrase: The phrase appears near the beginning of Justinian's "Institutiones": "iuris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere, alterum non laedere", suum cuique tribuere. (Inst. 1,1,3-4). (Translated into English: "the precepts of law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, [and] to give to each his own".) "Suum cuique" serves as the motto
Matthias Knutzen and ecclesiastical authorities are superfluous. In his Latin letter "Amicus Amicis Amica!" Knudsen summarizes his beliefs as: "Insuper Deum negamus, Magistratum ex alto despicimus, Templa quoque cum omnibus Sacerdotibus rejicientes." <br>Moreover, we deny God, we despise authorities from above and we reject the churches together with all ministers. The uppermost rule is for Knutzen, “Live honestly, do not harm anybody and give everybody what they deserve” (in Latin, "Honeste vivere, neminem laedere, suum cuique tribuere"), an old Roman legal principle according to Ulpian. Knutzen was obviously inspired by Socinianism. Other influences (Spinoza?) are hard to tell and disputed. However, it