But it takes a brave and resolute spirit not to be disconcerted in times of difficulty or ruffled and thrown off one's feet, as the saying is, but to keep one's presence of mind and one's self-possession and not to swerve from the path of reason.
Cicero describes the essence of a brave and resolute spirit as maintaining composure and adherence to reason amidst challenges and difficulties.
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Still, I do not mean to find fault with the accumulation of property, provided it hurts nobody, but unjust acquisition of it is always to be avoided.
Further than this, who fails to see that those promises are not binding which are extorted by intimidation or which we make when misled by false pretences?
So, then, it is truth that is, as it were, the stuff with which this virtue has to deal and on which it employs itself.
For we are all attracted and drawn to a zeal for learning and knowing; and we think it glorious to excel therein, while we count it base and immoral to fall into error, to wander from the truth, to be ignorant, to be led astray.
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