Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. |
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well |
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well |
Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not |
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. |
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. |
For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship. |
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. |
Freedom is the right to live as we wish. |
God has delivered yourself to your care, and says: "I had no fitter to trust than you |
God has entrusted me with myself. |
God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil |
God hath entrusted me with myself. |
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. |
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for the which he has |