Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.