If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.