Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.