If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

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

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

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.