A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
People are enticed by a desire which continually cheats them.‘Nothing is enough,’ they say, ‘for you’re only worth what you have.’
Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.
Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium resAdversae nudare solent, celare secundae.
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.