It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
“Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature.”
— Chrysippus
“Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded yo…”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“Man proposes, but God disposes.”
— Thomas à Kempis