How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.
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.