Cicero: “The supreme rule, then, in the matter of kindnesses to be rendered by personal service is never to take up a case in…”

Accordingly, in encountering danger we should do as doctors do in their practice: in light cases of illness they give mild treatment; in cases of dangerous sickness they are compelled to apply hazardous and even desperate remedies.

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…

For if we bring a certain amount of propriety and order into the transactions of daily life, we shall be conserving moral rectitude and moral dignity.

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