Have The Wisdom To Know What Cannot

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

When We Act Pugnaciously, And Injuriously, And Angrily, And Rudely, To What Level Have We Degenerated? To The Level Of The Wild Beasts. Well, The Fact Is That Some Of Us Are Wild Beasts Of A Larger Size, While Others Are Little Animals, Malignant And Petty.

It's So Simple Really: If You Say You're Going To Do Something, Do It. If You Start Something, Finish It.

Nothing Great Comes Into Being All At Once.

In Every Affair Consider What Precedes And What Follows, And Then Undertake It