When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?