Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

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.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

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

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.