For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away..

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed ….

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions..

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it..

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of o….

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve ….