Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.