It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.

Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.