Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.