For the essence of friendship being that two minds become as one, how can that ever take place if the mind of each of the separate parties to it is not single and uniform, but variable, changeable, and complex?
Cicero poses a rhetorical question in his treatise on friendship, emphasizing the necessity of consistent character for genuine unity between friends.
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In my opinion, at least, we should always strive to secure a peace that shall not admit of guile.
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.
From this attitude come greatness of soul and a sense of superiority to worldly conditions.
And it is a great man's duty in troublous times to single out the guilty for punishment, to spare the many, and in every turn of fortune to hold to a true and honourable course.
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