Sylla, who, guided by the apophthegms of Democritus, agreed with him that it is Fortune which spreads an ambitious table, but that Virtue...

In my Opinion, we might all draw more Good, from it than we do, & suffer less Evil, if we would but take care not to give too much for...

All humans who are keen to surpass other animals had best strive with all their might not to pass through life without notice, like...

We must realize, dear friend, that as in our everyday life nothing is really great which it is a mark of greatness to despise, I mean,...

Before the transgression of Adam all three substances in the human being‑flesh, soul, and spirit‑were good, Gen. 1:31. For God considered all the things which he /385/ had made and they were very good‑indeed, especially the human being made in the image of God, Gen. 1:31. The three substances were also wholly free to choose good or evil, life or death, heaven or hell. Thus they were originally made good and free also in the recognition, in the capability, and performance of g

It is a mark of an ungifted man to spend a great deal of time in what concerns his body, as in much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much evacuation of the bowels, much copulation. But these things are to be done in passing; and let you whole attention be devoted to the mind.

Come, now, and let us review the points on which we have reached agreement. The unhampered man, who finds things ready to hand as he wants them, is free. But the man who can be hampered, or subjected to compulsion, or hindered, or thrown into something against his will, is a slave. And who is unhampered? The man who fixes his aim on nothing that is not his own. And what are the things which are not our own? All that are not under our control, either to have, or not to have, o

Appian describes how the Gauls Lost Rome Because of Gluttony: