Translations
Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.George Long (1890)
Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)