In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.