A bove, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.
Neither is transpiration, as in plants, a thing to be valued, nor respiration, as in domesticated animals and wild beast…
How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be …