[602] De Off. ii. 14.
[603] Ibid. ii. 5.
[604] Ibid. i. 7.
[605] Ibid. iii. 6.
[606] Ibid. iii. 4. Compare this expression of the ancient Greek and Roman moral consciousness with that of the modern Japanese (see [p. 86]).
[607] Ibid. ii. 12.
[608] De Clem. ii. 6. The trouble with this philosophy, as has been said, is that if one does not feel pity for the sufferings of others he will not be likely to help them.
[609] Cicero, however, denied the right of self-destruction, and Vergil mildly censured the act. See Æneid, vi. 434.
[610] Discourses, i. 9.
[611] Meditations, v. 29.