There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
Everything may happen.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.