What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.