Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
The freedom of poetic license.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.