I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old. - Michel de Montaigne

Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them.