S ocrates excused himself to Perdiccas for not going to him, saying, It is because I would not perish by the worst of all ends, that is, I would not receive a favour and then be unable to return it.
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, …
In the writings of the Ephesians there was this precept, constantly to think of some one of the men of former times who …