Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
Suffering brings experience.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.