Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.