“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.” — Plato

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.