“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Hope is a waking dream.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
