When thou hast done a good act and another has received it, why dost thou still look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?
From his personal reflections, questioning the desire for external reward after performing a good deed.
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There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
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