If I wanted to avoid meeting a pessimistic philospher I would Schopenhauer earlier.
Those who wish to reap the blessings of freedom must, as men, endure the fatigue of defending it.
Thomas Paine.
It took me a few minutes :)
Very good.
"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"
Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
Cheers Craig
"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."
Lucius Cornelius Sulla - died 78 BC