As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
Art lies by its own artifice.