Everything Has Two Handles,-one By

If You Do Not Wish To Be Prone To Anger, Do Not Feed The Habit; Give It Nothing Which May Tend To Its Increase.

A Ship Should Not Be Held By A Single Anchor; Neither Should Life Depend Upon A Single Hope.

Freedom Is Secured Not By The Fulfillment Of One's Desires, But By The Removal Of Desire.

When Men Are Unhappy, They Do Not Imagine They Can Ever Cease To Be So; And When Some Calamity Has Fallen On Them, They Do Not See How They Can Get Rid Of It. Nevertheless, Both Arrive; And The Gods Have Ordered It So, In The End Men Seek It From The Gods

To Adorn Our Characters By The Charm Of An Amiable Nature Shows At Once A Lover Of Beauty And A Lover Of Man.