Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
To make something you have to be something.
One must be something to be able to do something.