Cicero: “To this type of good man, then, known not only to a Socrates but even to a Fimbria, nothing can possibly seem expedient…”

Moreover, all our thought and mental activity will be devoted either to planning for things that are morally right and that conduce to a good and happy life, or to the pursuits of science and learning.

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.

For whereas there are many, as I have said before, who place the achievements of war above those of peace, so one may find many to whom adventurous, hot-headed counsels seem more brilliant and more impressive than calm and well-considered…

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.