Cicero: “There are many advantages too which men of upright character voluntarily forego, or of which they are content to be…”

For self-control is the foe of the passions, and the passions are the handmaids of pleasure.

So, then, it is truth that is, as it were, the stuff with which this virtue has to deal and on which it employs itself.

And so, when we have leisure from the demands of business cares, we are eager to see, to hear, to learn something new, and we esteem a desire to know the secrets or wonders of creation as indispensable to a happy life.

Whether we do the kindness or not is optional; but to fail to requite one is not allowable to a good man, provided he can make the requital without violating the rights of others.