Cicero: “For man not only loves himself, but seeks another whose spirit he may so blend with his own as almost to make one being…”

To this passion for discovering truth there is added a hungering, as it were, for independence, so that a mind well-moulded by Nature is unwilling to be subject to anybody save one who gives rules of conduct or is a teacher of truth or…

Again, there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us.

In my opinion, at least, we should always strive to secure a peace that shall not admit of guile.

But for all cases we have one rule, with which I desire you to be perfectly familiar: that which seems expedient must not be morally wrong; or, if it is morally wrong, it must not seem expedient.