What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
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.
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.