Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Make a good use of the present.
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.