Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?