It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.