What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.