Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."