The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.