There is nothing, says Plato, so delightful, as the hearing or the speaking of Truth
. For this Reason there is no Conversation so agreeable as that of the Man of Integrity, who hears without any Intention to betray, and speaks without any Intention to deceive.
Among all the Accounts which are given of
Cato
, I do not remember one that more redounds to his Honour than the following Passage related by
Plutarch.
As an Advocate was pleading the Cause of his Client before one of the Prætors, he could only produce a single Witness in a Point where the Law required the Testimony of two Persons; upon which the Advocate insisted on the Integrity of that Person whom he had produced: but the Prætor told him, That where the Law required two Witnesses he would not accept of one, tho' it were
Cato
himself. Such a Speech from a Person who sat at the Head of a Court of Justice, while
Cato