Let Fate find us ready and alert. Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our actions.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.