But you say, “by obedience to another he loses his liberty.” How then is it that children suffer the orders of their father and mother, and pupils th… - Philo of Alexandria

There is no sweeter delight than that the soul should be charged through and through with justice, exercising itself in her eternal principles and doctrines and leaving no vacant place into which injustice can make its way.

Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.

And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.