Cicero: “What is done in a manly and courageous spirit seems becoming to a man and proper; what is done in a contrary fashion is…”

And so, when we have leisure from the demands of business cares, we are eager to see, to hear, to learn something new, and we esteem a desire to know the secrets or wonders of creation as indispensable to a happy life.

But those wars which have glory for their end must be carried on with less bitterness.

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.

Such acts of generosity are not to be so highly esteemed as those which are performed with judgment, deliberation, and mature consideration.