Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.