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

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.