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.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.