Cicero: “What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to…”

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

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.

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…

But the trouble about this matter is that it is in the greatest souls and in the most brilliant geniuses that we usually find ambitions for civil and military authority, for power, and for glory, springing up; and therefore we must be the…