Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.