An honorable man undertook without fear of persons the lost cause of the poor condemned wretch, and never rested till he had restored him to honor and liberty.

But imprisonment, disgrace and indignation had consumed the strength of the ill-used man as a worm eats into cedar wood, and he fell into a decline and died.

His preserver, Klea's father, as the reward of his courageous action fared even worse; for here by the Nile virtues are punished in this world, as crimes are with you.

Where injustice holds sway frightful things occur, for the gods seem to take the side of the wicked.

Those who do not hope for a reward in the next world, if they are neither fools nor philosophers--which often comes to the same thing--try to guard themselves against any change in this.
"Philotas, the father of the two girls, whose parents were natives of Syracuse, was an adherent of the doctrines of Zeno--which have many supporters among you at Rome too--and he was highly placed as an official, for he was president of the Chrematistoi, a college of judges which probably has no parallel out of Egypt, and which has been kept up better than any other.