Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Have your role model and follow in toto

epictetus

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772 The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
878 Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
792 Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
789 The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
795 If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

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