Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.
For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.
Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
That which never has been, never is, and never will be.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.