PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.