There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.