Lampis The Ship Owner, On Being Asked

Some Things Are Up To Us [eph' Hêmin] And Some Things Are Not Up To Us. Our Opinions Are Up To Us, And Our Impulses, Desires, Aversions–in Short, Whatever Is Our Own Doing. Our Bodies Are Not Up To Us, Nor Are Our Possessions, Our Reputations, Or Our Public Offices, Or, That Is, Whatever Is Not Our Own Doing.

Every Difficulty In Life Presents Us With An Opportunity To Turn Inward And To Invoke Our Own Submerged Inner Resources. The Trials We Endure Can And Should Introduce Us To Our Strengths.

Wherever Any One Is Against His Will, That Is To Him A Prison.

Contentment Comes Not So Much From Great Wealth As From Few Wants.

We Have Two Ears And One Mouth So That We Can Listen Twice As Much As We Speak.