“Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.”
“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
“You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.”
“The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him.”
“But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.”
“Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright.”