255.
Being continually in people’s sight, by the satiety which it creates, diminishes the reverence felt for great characters.
Livy.
256.
There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.
Talmud.
257.
By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.
Dhammapada.