Cicero: “Whatever time each is granted for life, with that he is bound to be content.”

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

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.

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.

Still, I do not mean to find fault with the accumulation of property, provided it hurts nobody, but unjust acquisition of it is always to be avoided.