Poetry Demands A Man With A Special

The Greatest Of All Pleasures Is The Pleasure Of Learning.

Therefore The Good Man Ought To Be A Lover Of Self, Since He Will Then Both Benefit Himself By Acting Nobly And Aid His Fellows; But The Bad Man Ought Not To Be A Lover Of Self, Since He Will Follow His Base Passions, And So Injure Both Himself And His Neighbors. With The Bad Man Therefore, What He Does Is Not In Accord With What He Ought To Do, But The Good Man Does What He Ought, Since Intelligence Always Chooses For Itself That Which Is Best, And The Good Man Obeys His Intelligence.

The High-minded Man Is Fond Of Conferring Benefits, But It Shames Him To Receive Them.

True Happiness Flows From The Possession Of Wisdom And Virtue And Not From The Possession Of External Goods.

Those Who Believe That All Virtue Is To Be Found In Their Own Party Principles Push Matters To Extremes; They Do Not Consider That Disproportion Destroys A State.