Cicero: “But of all the occupations by which gain is secured, none is better than agriculture, none more profitable, none more…”

For self-control is the foe of the passions, and the passions are the handmaids of pleasure.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a pre-eminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

But the trouble about this matter is that it is in the greatest souls and in the most brilliant geniuses that we usually find ambitions for civil and military authority, for power, and for glory, springing up; and therefore we must be the…

Not only must we show consideration for those whom we have conquered by force of arms but we must also ensure protection to those who lay down their arms and throw themselves upon the mercy of our generals, even though the battering-ram…