Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.
In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.
If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.