Cicero: “Then, too, certain bounds must be observed in our amusements and we must be careful not to carry things too far and…”

For they secure one sort of justice, to be sure, in that they do no positive wrong to anyone, but they fall into the opposite injustice; for hampered by their pursuit of learning they leave to their fate those whom they ought to defend.

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.

From this attitude come greatness of soul and a sense of superiority to worldly conditions.

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…