If You Do Not Wish To Be

Men Are Not Troubled By Things Themselves, But By Their Thoughts About Them

If You Wish To Be Good, First Believe That You Are Bad.

When Men Are Unhappy, They Do Not Imagine They Can Ever Cease To Be So; And When Some Calamity Has Fallen On Them, They Do Not See How They Can Get Rid Of It. Nevertheless, Both Arrive; And The Gods Have Ordered It So, In The End Men Seek It From The Gods

Consider First The Nature Of The Business In Hand; Then Examine Thy Own Nature, Whether Thou Hast Strength To Undertake It.

All Philosophy Lies In Two Words, Sustain And Abstain.