[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.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.