In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.