It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.