He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.