“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
“A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself”
“Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.”
“Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”
“[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.”
“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”