We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
Law is order, and good law is good order.
Man by nature wants to know.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.