"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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.