Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.