Cicero: “Still, I do not mean to find fault with the accumulation of property, provided it hurts nobody, but unjust acquisition…”

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.

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

Such acts of generosity are not to be so highly esteemed as those which are performed with judgment, deliberation, and mature consideration.

For there is a limit to retribution and to punishment; or rather, I am inclined to think, it is sufficient that the aggressor should be brought to repent of his wrong-doing, in order that he may not repeat the offence and that others may…