In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.
Rabelais.
575.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe.
576.
No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*
Menander.
* Cf. Job V, 17; Heb. XII, 6.