The first office of justice is to keep one man from doing harm to another, unless provoked by wrong; and the next is to lead men to use common possessions for the common interests, private property for their own.
In his discussion of justice, Cicero outlines its primary functions as preventing harm and guiding the use of both common and private resources for appropriate interests.
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Don't you think that the soul which has the clearer and longer sight sees that it is starting for better things, while the soul whose vision is dimmer does not see it?
But my soul, I know not how, refusing to be kept down, ever fixed its eyes upon future ages, as though from a conviction that it would begin to live only when it had left the body.
Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?
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