We choose our life that is free: but the choice once made, what awaits us is fixed and ordered.

Good and evil are different from the vulgar opinion of them.

Often those who seem to battle with adversity are to be accounted blessed; but the many, even in their prosperity, are miserable.

It needs only to bear misfortune bravely, while the fool perishes in his wealth.
Outside these rival schools stands the man in the street.

No one will take from him his conviction that at our birth are fixed for us the things that shall be.