Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
Punishment follows close on crime.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.