Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?