There are, on the other hand, two kinds of injustice--the one, on the part of those who inflict wrong, the other on the part of those who, when they can, do not shield from wrong those upon whom it is being inflicted.
In his work on ethical conduct, Cicero defines the two primary ways in which injustice manifests in human society.
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Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?
But my soul, I know not how, refusing to be kept down, ever fixed its eyes upon future ages, as though from a conviction that it would begin to live only when it had left the body.
Don't you think that the soul which has the clearer and longer sight sees that it is starting for better things, while the soul whose vision is dimmer does not see it?
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