And so, when we have leisure from the demands of business cares, we are eager to see, to hear, to learn something new, and we esteem a desire to know the secrets or wonders of creation as indispensable to a happy life.
In his work on ethics, Cicero explains how the human desire for knowledge and understanding contributes to a fulfilling life when free from daily obligations.
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In my opinion, at least, we should always strive to secure a peace that shall not admit of guile.
For whereas there are many, as I have said before, who place the achievements of war above those of peace, so one may find many to whom adventurous, hot-headed counsels seem more brilliant and more impressive than calm and well-considered…
And it is a great man's duty in troublous times to single out the guilty for punishment, to spare the many, and in every turn of fortune to hold to a true and honourable course.
For self-control is the foe of the passions, and the passions are the handmaids of pleasure.
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