“Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.”

“It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.”

“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”

“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

“Only the man who says no is free”