“The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.”

“A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.”

“He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.”

“Someone will say: And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life which is likely to bring you to an untimely end? To him I may fairly answer: There you are mistaken: a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong — acting the part of a good man or a bad. …For wherever a man's place is, whether the place he has chosen or that where he has been placed by a commander. there he ought to remain in the hour of danger; he should not think of death or of anything, but of disgrace.”

“A man who works for another is not going to be paid any more than he is worth; you can bet on that. A man ought to get what he can earn. Don't make any difference whether it's running a farm, running a bank or running a show; a man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.”

“Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.”

“A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."”

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.”
Qui grate beneficium accipit, primam eius pensionem solvit.

“The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.”