No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
We are not to lead events, but to follow them.
You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?
Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.