Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

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.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.