"If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable."

"We are not to be like sheep, who, when they have filled themselves, stand and gaze, and bring nothing home but their pasture; but we should rather be like bees, which both fly and collect, and bring h…"

"If a man has seen a snake, and has not been bitten, but has been frightened, he is not on that account the less afraid, although he may say, 'I am not afraid.'"

"If you want to be a man, or a woman, and do what is proper to a human being, do not go to others and ask, 'Am I a human being?'"

"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."