Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.
How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.
When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.