Cicero: “And we shall not fail in this if we guard against violent excitement or depression, and if we keep our minds intent on…”

But while they steer clear of the one kind of injustice, they fall into the other: they are traitors to social life, for they contribute to it none of their interest, none of their effort, none of their means.

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.

In the matter of a promise one must always consider the meaning and not the mere words.

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.