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So, although I once
lived amid throngs of people and in the greatest
publicity, I am now shunning the sight of the miscreants with whom the world abounds and withdrawing from the public eye as far as I may, and I
am often alone. But I have learned from philosophers that among evils one ought not only to choose
the least, but also to extract even from these any
element of good that they may contain. For that
reason, I am turning my leisure to account—though
it is not such repose as the man should be entitled
to who once brought the state repose from civil
strife—and I am not letting this solitude, which
necessity and not my will imposes on me, find me idle.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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