The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.