It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
Jean de la BruyereIf this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.
Jean de la Bruyere