Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
They can do all because they think they can.
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.