Associate's Mind

At last, he began to discourse of fortune and human affairs. “Is it meet,” said he, “for him that knows he is but man, in his greatest prosperity to pride himself, and be exalted at the conquest of a city, nation, or kingdom, and not rather well to weigh this change of fortune, in which [...]

And yet he often desired his friends not to call him orator, but philosopher, because he had made philosophy his business, and had only used rhetoric as an instrument for attaining his objects in public life. But the desire of glory has great power in washing the tinctures of philosophy out of the souls of men, and in imprinting [...]

On beginning to apply himself more resolutely to public business, he remarked it as an and absurd thing that artificers, using vessels and instruments inanimate, should know the name, place, and use of every one of them, and yet the statesman, whose instruments for carrying out public measures are men, should be negligent and careless [...]

“But the greatest credit which Drusus got for kindness and justice towards the people was, that he never seemed to propose any law for his own advantage; he committed the charge of seeing the colonies rightly settled to other commissioners…” -Commentary on the virtues of Drusus; Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (c. [...]