Cicero: “I believe, Scipio and Laelius, that your fathers--those illustrious men and my dearest friends--are still alive, and…”

He was wrong; for deceit does not remove the guilt of perjury--it merely aggravates it. #The ancient Roman discipline.# His cunning that impudently tried to masquerade as prudence was, therefore, only folly.

But those wars which have glory for their end must be carried on with less bitterness.

Again, there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all…