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

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

If you wish to be a writer, write.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.