I will remain your ally in this matter; for, as Cambyses' dying father appointed me the counsellor of his son in word and deed, I venture occasionally a bold word to arrest his excesses.

Ours is the only blame from which he shrinks: we alone can dare to speak our opinion to him.

Let us courageously do our duty in this our office: you, moved by love to Persia and your son, and I by thankfulness to that great man to whom I owe life and freedom, and whose son Cambyses is.

I know that you bemoan the manner in which he has been brought up; but such late repentance must be avoided like poison.

For the errors of the wise the remedy is reparation, not regret; regret consumes the heart, but the effort to repair an error causes it to throb with a noble pride." "In Egypt," said Nitetis, "regret is numbered among the forty-two deadly sins.