Such is the disposition of mankind, if they cannot blast an action, they will censure the parade of it; and whether you do what does not deserve to b… - Pliny the Younger

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

I contemplate the sort of friend, the sort of man I am now without. He completed his sixty-seventh year, a reasonable age for the sturdiest of us; I acknowledge that. He escaped from an interminable illness; I acknowledge that. He died with his dear ones surviving him, and at a time of prosperity for the state, which was dearer to him than all else; that too I acknowledge. Yet I lament his death as though he were young and in glowing health. I lament it—you can consider me a weakling in this—on my own account, for I have lost the witness, guardian and teacher of my life.

Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.