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

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

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.

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

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

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.