And it would be thought that in the matter of food we should help our parents before all others, since we owe our own nourishment to them, and it is more noble to help in this respect the authors of our being even before ourselves; and honour too one should give to one's parents as one does to the gods, but not any and every honour; for one should not give the same honour to one's father and one's mother, nor again should one give them the honour due to a wise man or to a general, but the honour due to a father, or again to a mother.