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.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

Love of action is not industry.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.