Submit to the fate of your own free will.
If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.