Cicero: “On the other hand, misfortunes would be hard to bear if there were not some one to feel them even more acutely than…”

It is, therefore, an excellent rule that they give who bid us not to do a thing, when there is a doubt whether it be right or wrong; for righteousness shines with a brilliance of its own, but doubt is a sign that we are thinking of a…

Further than this, who fails to see that those promises are not binding which are extorted by intimidation or which we make when misled by false pretences?

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.

Still, I do not mean to find fault with the accumulation of property, provided it hurts nobody, but unjust acquisition of it is always to be avoided.