When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

With ills unending strives the putter off.