Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

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

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

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top