Cicero: “We shall, therefore, work to the best advantage in that rôle to which we are best adapted.”

From this attitude come greatness of soul and a sense of superiority to worldly conditions.

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.

For they secure one sort of justice, to be sure, in that they do no positive wrong to anyone, but they fall into the opposite injustice; for hampered by their pursuit of learning they leave to their fate those whom they ought to defend.

In my opinion, at least, we should always strive to secure a peace that shall not admit of guile.