Cicero: “But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives…”

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 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.

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

It is, therefore, only a madman who, in a calm, would pray for a storm; a wise man's way is, when the storm does come, to withstand it with all the means at his command, and especially, when the advantages to be expected in case of a…