In the course of a man's life, he is beset by turmoil—the insolence of others, the frailty of the body, the whims of fortune....

Nature has made us for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. To obstruct each other is to...

Fortune may grant or strip away your possessions, your status, your very health. Why, then, would you chain your inner peace to such fickle...

I have often written that we are born for cooperation, like two rows of teeth. Yet men will inevitably obstruct, vex, and betray us....

I have known many days where my body has been a poor servant, afflicted by pains and weariness. Yet the duties of an Emperor...

All that befalls us is as familiar and commonplace as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer. So too are the duties...

The world presses in from all sides. Men will vex you, fortune will shift like the sands, and your own thoughts can be a...

I have seen the business of the court and the chaos of the battlefield. In all circumstances, I have found that our vexation and...

At the close of each day, the soul requires an accounting. We are tossed by the waves of fortune and the demands of others,...

I have found that the tranquility of the day is often won or lost in its first moments. Before the demands of the Empire...