He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.