Cicero: “For Nature is so much more stable and steadfast, that for Fortune to come into conflict with Nature seems like a combat…”

From this attitude come greatness of soul and a sense of superiority to worldly conditions.

For there are men who for fear of giving offence do not dare to express their honest opinion, no matter how excellent.

It is, therefore, an excellent rule that they give who bid us not to do a thing, when there is a doubt whether it be right or wrong; for righteousness shines with a brilliance of its own, but doubt is a sign that we are thinking of a…

There are, on the other hand, two kinds of injustice--the one, on the part of those who inflict wrong, the other on the part of those who, when they can, do not shield from wrong those upon whom it is being inflicted.