5. FebruaryLife is like a game of dice: how the dice fall is not up to me. But to place the fallen ones carefully and skilfully — that is my task. 21. FebruaryNo one escapes fate. But whether you bear what cannot be changed grumbling or with composure — that is up to you alone. 23. MarchKarataev took life as it came — the way rain falls. He did not complain, he did not choose; he lived whatever the day brought him. 9. AprilThis too will pass. Be the reed through which the friend's breath flows — and whatever comes, say yes to it. 7. MayThe mind of the sage is like a mirror: it holds on to nothing and refuses nothing, receives things as they come, and keeps no trace. 13. JuneLiving and dying are a coming and going. Whoever takes change as home drifts freely with the current and does not wrestle with the water. 4. JulyWhat we seek is this: that the soul should always move at an even pace, in good order, content with itself, loving its own condition and not interrupting this joy — a quiet evenness. The Greeks call it Euthymia. I call it tranquillity. 23. JulyLead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have appointed me. I follow without hesitating. And if I were unwilling — I would have to follow all the same, only as the worse man.