Cicero: “You can never trust a character which is intricate and tortuous.”

To this passion for discovering truth there is added a hungering, as it were, for independence, so that a mind well-moulded by Nature is unwilling to be subject to anybody save one who gives rules of conduct or is a teacher of truth or…

From this attitude come greatness of soul and a sense of superiority to worldly conditions.

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

For there is a limit to retribution and to punishment; or rather, I am inclined to think, it is sufficient that the aggressor should be brought to repent of his wrong-doing, in order that he may not repeat the offence and that others may…