Cicero: “And I care quite as much what the state of the constitution will be after my death as what it is now.”

For there are men who for fear of giving offence do not dare to express their honest opinion, no matter how excellent.

Accordingly, in encountering danger we should do as doctors do in their practice: in light cases of illness they give mild treatment; in cases of dangerous sickness they are compelled to apply hazardous and even desperate remedies.

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.

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