Caro

“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
― Epictetus

“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.”
― Confucius

“Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monuments; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying.”
― Henry James