You are your choices.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?