From The Philosopher Catulus, Never To Be

Look Beneath The Surface; Let Not The Several Quality Of A Thing Nor Its Worth Escape Thee.

No Matter What Anyone Says Or Does, My Task Is To Be Emerald, My Color Undiminished.

What Matter And Opportunity [for Thy Activity] Art Thou Avoiding? For What Else Are All These Things, Except Exercises For The Reason, When It Has Viewed Carefully And By Examination Into Their Nature The Things Which Happen In Life? Persevere Then Until Thou Shalt Have Made These Things Thy Own, As The Stomach Which Is Strengthened Makes All Things Its Own, As The Blazing Fire Makes Flame And Brightness Out Of Everything That Is Thrown Into It.

For Nowhere Either With More Quiet Or More Freedom From Trouble Does A Man Retire Than Into His Own Soul, Particularly When He Has Within Him Such Thoughts That By Looking Into Them He Is Immediately In Perfect Tranquility; And I Affirm That Tranquility Is Nothing Else Than The Good Ordering Of The Mind.

All That Happens Is As Usual And Familiar As The Rose In Spring And The Crop In Summer.