“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.” Animal Farm

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. The Fellowship of the Ring

The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion. Gorgias

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation. Book VIII