Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.