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"Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."

"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."

"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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"But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper."

"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."

"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."

"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."
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