A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.
PhilemonIt is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.
PhilemonOnly the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.
PhilemonDoes man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.
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