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Eloquence (n.) is the purple a ruler cannot take off: reach the wisdom of Zeno and you will still have to wear the emperor's cloak, not the philosopher's.
Love (n.) is no love at all when it springs from reasons: it is steam rising unbidden from the earth, not a fire fed with services, which smokes, costs money and dies when the feeding stops.
Nobility (n.) of birth tends to come with a strange lack of natural affection — the well-born are often heartless.
Paradox (n.) should be turned over within you, varied with figures and nuances, put to the test, and dressed in splendid words.
Tenderness (n.) of heart — philostorgia — was so rare at Rome, said Fronto, that Latin had no word for it.
Tyranny (n.) breeds envy, caprice and dissimulation — and the so-called patricians, on the whole, lack warmth of heart.