I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
Spare the person but lash the vice.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.