Cicero: “But it is much more important that we succeed in keeping our mental operations in harmony with nature's laws.”

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

Again, there are certain duties that we owe even to those who have wronged us.

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.

He was wrong; for deceit does not remove the guilt of perjury--it merely aggravates it. #The ancient Roman discipline.# His cunning that impudently tried to masquerade as prudence was, therefore, only folly.