Cicero: “But granting that you can give anyone anything you choose, you must have a care that it does not prove to be beyond his…”

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…

Moreover, all our thought and mental activity will be devoted either to planning for things that are morally right and that conduce to a good and happy life, or to the pursuits of science and learning.

For self-control is the foe of the passions, and the passions are the handmaids of pleasure.

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.