Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.