Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it