Ethical Writings of Cicero

§19. Magnanimity void when divorced from justice.
20. Consists in supreme love and resolute choice of the right, and in a mind undisturbed by passion and by the vicissitudes of fortune.
21. Equanimity, how disturbed, and how maintained.
22, 23. Magnanimity needed and shown in civic no less than in military service and achievements.
24. The truly great man will sacrifice even his own reputation to the public good.
25. Disinterestedness and impartial care for the whole body politic incumbent on those in public office.
26. A great man will in prosperity keep himself free from arrogance and superciliousness.
27. Temperance and moderation. Decorum defined.
28. Decorum consists in one's living in accordance with his own nature, taking in life the part for which he is fitted.
29. Decorum to be maintained in jest and sport.
30, 31. Wide diversities of mental constitution and proclivity fitly manifested in a corresponding diversity of manners and of social intercourse.
32. The part which we take upon ourselves in the choice of a profession or mode of life.
33. The part imposed upon us by circumstances beyond our control.
34. Decorum as regards different ages and conditions in life.
35. Decorum requires modesty and decency in dress, conduct, and speech. The coarseness and indecency of the Cynics censured.
36. Decorum requires in dress and personal habits something midway between the extremes of slovenliness and foppishness, of rusticity and over-refinement, of laggard laziness and inordinate haste, also an equipoise of the appetites and passions.
37. Decorum in the style of conversation.
38. Decorum excludes from the speech anger, boastfulness, and mendacity.
39. What sort of a house a man of distinguished rank should live in.