Cicero: “They are not at all vexed at having committed a fault, but very angry at being reproved for it.”

For there are men who for fear of giving offence do not dare to express their honest opinion, no matter how excellent.

In the matter of a promise one must always consider the meaning and not the mere words.

For if we bring a certain amount of propriety and order into the transactions of daily life, we shall be conserving moral rectitude and moral dignity.

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.