Quotes from Quintus Curtius

Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.

I don't know what is in the hearts of evil men. But I know what is in the heart of a good man, and it is horrible.

For often even the sad can become happy by displaying strength and firmness; they are not made happy by lightheartedness, nor by frivolity, laughing, or joking, which is the companion of shallowness.

Scala separates the "goods" (i.e., the good things which make life happy) of this world into three classes: goods of the body, goods of the soul, and a third category of what he calls "external goods.