When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.