"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful..." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.