Cicero: “But what is worse folly than to do the thing you like in such a way that you can no longer do it at all?”

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.

It is, therefore, only a madman who, in a calm, would pray for a storm; a wise man's way is, when the storm does come, to withstand it with all the means at his command, and especially, when the advantages to be expected in case of a…

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a pre-eminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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