[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.