I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there. - Epictetus

"If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Man be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did: — never, when asked one's country, to answer, "I am an Athenian or a Corinthian," but "I am a citizen of the world.

Who is not tempted by attractive and wide-awake children to join their sports, and crawl on all fours with them, and talk baby talk with them?

"Which of us does not admire what Lycurgus the Spartan did? A young citizen had put out his eye, and been handed over to him by the people to be punished at his own discretion. Lycurgus abstained from all vengeance, but on the contrary instructed and made a good man of him. Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans: "I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.