The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Bad men are full of repentance.
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.