“Let go a few of them, and then you can draw out the rest!” — You, too, let your desire go! covet not many things, and you will obtain.

XCVI

Pittacus,(12) wronged by one whom he had it in his power to punish, let him go free, saying, Forgiveness is better than revenge. The one shows native gentleness, the other savagery.

(12) One of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He ruled Mytilene in Lesbos in the seventh century B.C.

XCVII

“My brother ought not to have treated me thus.”

True: but he must see to that. However he may treat me, I must deal rightly by him. This is what lies with me, what none can hinder.