172. But nothing is so harmonious Cic. de
Off. I. 17, § 56. as justice and impartiality. For
this, as the comrade and ally of good-will, makes us love those whom we
think to be like ourselves. Again, good-will contains also in
itself fortitude. For when friendship springs from the fount of
good-will it does not hesitate to endure the great dangers of life for
a friend. “If evils come to me through him,” it says,
“I will bear them.” Ecclus. xxiii. 31.