All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy