He cannot make 2 x 2 = 100 rather than 4, even though he should prefer it to be so.
∞
[Mortals] on the other hand may have an inclination and even an ability for doing a certain thing; if something interferes to keep them from doing it, it’s clear that it is their weakness that’s to blame.
∞
For no one has ever imagined anything more glorious than the beauty of the heavens.
⋅ Nota Bene ⋅
(The first one made me laugh.)
The man who hypocritically pretends to be what he is not makes himself a liar in everything that he does.
After all, if a king is unable to drive the barbarians out of every country he will usually drive them from one place to another, pushing back the evil from one place to the next.
For in the normal course of things anyone who does what his father tells him is acting correctly in obeying a parent, out of respect for the parent. If a father is wicked, then the sins of the father must not be attributed to his children.
∞
So, too, the man who causes slander is guilty of a greater wrong than those who use it or those who are hurt by it.
[It follows that] if these men were unable to be consistent with respect to the way he died, basing [their account] on hearsay, then they did not fare any better with the rest of their story.
Hiraeth 