A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Consider an enemy may become a friend.
Truth never perishes.
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.