The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to some degree, an act of self-exposure; the book you find too challenging might only show how ill-equipped you are to face its challenge.Howard Jacobson
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?Epictetus
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.Plutarch
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.Buddha
