Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. The Critic as Artist

“The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.” Republic

He whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. The Picture of Dorian Gray