How do we find time? In my case, how could I
not find the time? The office of virtue resides in action.
Cicero, in 'On Duties' (De Officii) wrote:The man, on the other hand, being endowed with the reason, for which distinguishes the causes and effects... he connects the future intimately to the present, and he sees the whole course of the life and he prepares all what is necessary for it.
Besides, Nature, by the force of reason, joins the men, one with each other, forming a community of language and life and engender, over all, on everyone of them, a singular love for his children, impelling them to… procure all what is necessary for his needs and well being, not only for himself, but for his woman and children and all those who he appreciates and has the duty to sustain. This concern stimulates his spirit and fills him with impulse and ardor to work.
But above all it is characteristic of man the diligent investigation of the truth. Therefore, when we feel free of the works and of the concerns of the life, we want to see something, to hear, to learn, and we believe necessary for our happiness the knowledge of the secrets and marvels. From that, it is a right conclusion that what is truthful, simple and honest it’s adapted to man's nature.
To this longing of seeing, he unites a strong yearning of independence, so, a soul well formed by nature, don’t submits his will to anybody voluntarily but to the one that advises or teaches, or, for the sake of utility, to those invested with just and legitimate authority; of this, it arises the greatness of spirit and the scorn for the external things.
And it is not a small privilege of his rational nature, the fact that man is the only animated being that is able to perceive what order is, what is convenient and the measure of facts and words. So,… there is no other animal that is able to discern the beauty, the grace, the proportion and, being this resemblance moved, by nature and reason, from the eyes to the soul, a man thinks that he must conserve the beauty, the perseverance, the order in his thoughts and works… and in all his opinions and labors he wishes never to think or act because of whim.
From these four components it is honesty formed, that we try to define, and, even if it is not pleasing to the multitude, not for that is less worthy of honor and we affirm with all the truth in our side that this, even if no one praises it, it is worthy of praise by Nature.
