“-Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?”

“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”

“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.”

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

“First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“That Socrates should ever have been so treated by the Athenians!" Slave! why say "Socrates"? Speak of the thing as it is: That ever then the poor body of Socrates should have been dragged away and haled by main force to prision! That ever hemlock should have been given to the body of Socrates; that that should have breathed its life away!—Do you marvel at this? Do you hold this unjust? Is it for this that you accuse God? Had Socrates no compensation for this? Where then for him was the ideal Good? Whom shall we hearken to, you or him? And what says he? "Anytus and Melitus may put me to death: to injure me is beyond their power." And again:— "If such be the will of God, so let it be.”