It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

I refer those actions which work out the good of the agent to courage, and those which work out the good of others to nobility. Therefore temperance, sobriety,…

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.