Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.