Cicero: “From this attitude come greatness of soul and a sense of superiority to worldly conditions.”

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

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 for all cases we have one rule, with which I desire you to be perfectly familiar: that which seems expedient must not be morally wrong; or, if it is morally wrong, it must not seem expedient.

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