The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.