Philip being arbitrator betwixt two wicked persons, he commanded one to fly out of Macedonia and the other to pursue him. - Plutarch

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

In politics, we must not escape a single master…but many masters…contentiousness, love of glory, the desire to be first and greatest, and the sickness that produces envy, jealousy, and dissension in abundance.

But more than this - not even, after your victims have been killed, will you eat them just as they are from the slaughter-house. You boil, roast, and altogether metamorphose them by fire and condiments. You entirely alter and disguise the murdered animal by use of ten thousand sweet herbs and spices, that your natural taste may be deceived and be prepared to take the unnatural food. A proper and witty rebuke was that of the Spartan who bought a fish and gave it to his cook to dress. When the latter asked for butter, and olive oil, and vinegar, he replied, 'Why, if I had all these things I should not have bought the fish!