Status Updates From The Consolation of Philosophy

'"Although it is the nature of other animals not to know themselves, such ignorance proves to be a vice in man."'

'"Consider also that the most delicate emotions are those of happy men. Unless everything works according to their whim, they are overthrown by every little trouble, unaccustomed as they are to adversity. And so, things of the least importance can bring down the very lucky man from his 'great bliss.'"'

'What difference do you suppose it makes then whether you desert Fortune by dying or she deserts you by fleeing?'

“Over and above all this, another weight is added to my load of ills, and that the world does not judge actions on their merit, but on their chance results, and they consider that only those things which are blessed with a happy outcome have been undertaken with sound advice. It is always the unfortunate our first to be deserted by the goodwill of men.”