Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Wise men speak because they have something to say

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.