Cicero: “For we all seek to obtain what is to us expedient; we are irresistibly drawn toward it, and we cannot possibly be…”

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.

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

But for the most part, people are led to wrong-doing in order to secure some personal end; in this vice, avarice is generally the controlling motive.

For there are men who for fear of giving offence do not dare to express their honest opinion, no matter how excellent.