"Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day – especially death – and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess."

"If you would not be a man of many words, be a man of many deeds."

"What, then, is the proper thing to do? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens."

"Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."