Ethical Writings of Cicero

§11. These prerequisites of fame are all created and conferred by justice, and cannot exist independently of justice.
12. Kings were first chosen, and laws established, to secure the equal administration of justice.
13. Justice the prime factor of fame. But a young man is aided in acquiring reputation by attaching himself to the society and seeking the counsel of men already worthily eminent.
14. Favor won by ease and affability in conversation, by eloquence at the bar, especially in the defence of accused persons. Accusation to be resorted to rarely, and only for special reasons, personal, official, or patriotic.
15. Beneficence by personal service or by money. The former more conducive to reputation.
16, 17. Pecuniary prodigality and liberality, the former to be deprecated, yet sometimes necessary, as in the aedileship a Roman magistracy responsible for public works and games for those who aspire to higher office.
18. Liberality and hospitality as conducive to reputation.
19. Personal service, especially eloquent defence in the courts of justice, the means of gaining attached and zealous friends.
20. Benefits better invested with poor but worthy men who will feel the obligation, than with rich men who will spurn it.
21. Benefits affecting classes of men or the whole community. The former to be so conferred as, if possible, to help, and never to injure the entire body politic the state or society as a whole.
22. Agrarian laws laws concerning the distribution of public land and measures looking to the cancelling or arbitrary reduction of debts are not conducive to true or enduring fame.
23. The conduct of Aratus, of Sicyon, with reference to estates confiscated by tyrants, and belonging to exiles restored by him to their country.
24. The efforts for the cancelling of debts suppressed under Cicero's consulship. The care of health and of property.
25. The comparison of things expedient or useful.