When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority—at least of indifference.
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.”
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”
“Sometimes life’s gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”
“True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear, as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing.”