Cicero: “Which then of the two would you prefer to have given to you--bodily strength like that, or intellectual strength like…”

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 there is a limit to retribution and to punishment; or rather, I am inclined to think, it is sufficient that the aggressor should be brought to repent of his wrong-doing, in order that he may not repeat the offence and that others may…

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

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…