You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'