Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
Act your part with honor.
Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.