Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.