Cicero: “The former is suited to men of worth and dignity, the latter to those shallow flatterers, if I may call them so, who…”

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.

The first office of justice is to keep one man from doing harm to another, unless provoked by wrong; and the next is to lead men to use common possessions for the common interests, private property for their own.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a pre-eminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all…