The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

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.