Cicero: “On the contrary, they ought to be grieved at the crime and glad of the correction.”

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.

What a sorry state of servitude for a virtue--to be pandering to sensual pleasure!

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.

Again, there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us.