It is hard to walk on with such a goal in prospect.

What may not the new year bring in its course ?" Hadrian sighed deeply, but Antinous went close up to him, fell on his knees before him and asked in a tone of childlike humility: "May I, a poor foolish lad, teach a great and wise man how to enrich his life with six happy months ?" The Emperor smiled, as though he knew what was coming, but his favorite felt encouraged to proceed.
"Leave the future to the future," he said.

"What must come will come, for the gods themselves have no power against Fate.

When evil is approaching it casts its black shadow before it; you fix your gaze on it and let it darken the light of day.

I saunter dreamily on my way and never see misfortune till it runs up against me and falls upon me unawares--" "And so you are spared many a gloomy day," interrupted Hadrian.
"That is just what I would have said." "And your advice is excellent, for you and for every other loiterer through the gay fair-time of an idle life," replied the Emperor, "but the man whose task it is to bear millions in safety and over abysses, must watch the signs around him, look out far and near, and never dare close his eyes, even when such terrors loom as it was my fate to see during the past night." As he spoke, Phlegon, the Emperor's private secretary, came in with letters just received from Rome, and approached his master.