Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
Tempus fugit (time flies).
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.