(Ap9:2) Further, as we know not anything
among individual things which is more excellent than a man led by
reason, no man can better display the power of his skill and
disposition, than in so training men, that they come at last to
live under the dominion of their own reason.
[Ap.X] (Ap10:1) In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of
hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are
therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful
than their fellows.
[Ap.XI] (Ap11:1) Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and
high-mindedness.
[Ap.XII] (Ap12:1) It is before all things useful to men to associate
their ways of life, to bind themselves together with such bonds
as they think most fitted to gather them all into unity, and
generally to do whatsoever serves to strengthen friendship.
[Ap.XIII] (Ap13:1) But for this there is need of skill and watchfulness.
(2) For men are diverse (seeing that those who live under the
guidance of reason are few), yet are they generally envious
and more prone to revenge than to sympathy. (3) No small force
of character is therefore required to take everyone as he is,
and to restrain one's self from imitating the emotions of others.
(Ap13:4) But those who carp at mankind, and are more skilled in
railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather
than strengthen men's dispositions, are hurtful both to
themselves and others.
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