Cicero: “Could such a high spirit fail to make old age pleasant?”

For we may well be guided by those fundamental principles of justice which I laid down at the outset: first, that no harm be done to anyone; second, that the common interests be conserved.

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.

For whereas there are many, as I have said before, who place the achievements of war above those of peace, so one may find many to whom adventurous, hot-headed counsels seem more brilliant and more impressive than calm and well-considered…

What a sorry state of servitude for a virtue--to be pandering to sensual pleasure!