If we were able to examine the mind of a good man, what a beautiful sight we should see: how pure, how astonishing in its noble calm – bright with justice and strength, with moderation and wisdom. In addition to these, thrift and moderation and endurance, kindness and affability, even humanity – a quality, hard as this is to believe, rarely encountered in humans – would add their own brilliance. Seneca, Epistles 115.3
