"He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea."
- Publilius Syrus
"From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own."
"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."
"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."
"Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not."
"Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them."
"Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own."
"We die as often as we lose a friend."
"Friendship neither finds nor makes equals."
"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."