Cicero: “For it is not so much what one gets by a friend that gives one pleasure, as the warmth of his feeling; and we only care…”

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 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…

For if we bring a certain amount of propriety and order into the transactions of daily life, we shall be conserving moral rectitude and moral dignity.

And so, when we have leisure from the demands of business cares, we are eager to see, to hear, to learn something new, and we esteem a desire to know the secrets or wonders of creation as indispensable to a happy life.