It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: -- I move not without Thy knowledge!

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.