O thou who governest the world by everlasting reason.

Happy is he who could see the bright fountain of the good.

If you wish to see the laws of high thunder with a pure and skilful mind, look upon the summits of the highest heaven.

It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

-- Plotinus

Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we did not believe possible.

-- Simone Weil

Fate is a natural order of all things, following one upon another from eternity, and their intertwining is inviolable.

-- Chrysippus of Soli

Character is destiny.

-- Heraclitus

Illness, insanity, and death were the dark angels that kept watch over my cradle.

-- Edvard Munch

Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.

-- Democritus