Submit to the fate of your own free will.
I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.
Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.
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.
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?