In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

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

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.