That man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself. Letters from a Stoic

No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow. Thyestes

“[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.” Midnight Library

"When I meet a man who can hold his own beside me," he said with slow deliberation, "then I'll change my opinion of myself. Fathers and Sons