Every circumstance comes with two handles, which one of which you can hold it, while with the other conditions are insupportable. - Epictetus

Look now, this is the starting point of philosophy: the recognition that different people have conflicting opinions, the rejection of mere opinion so that it comes to be viewed with mistrust, an investigation of opinion to determine whether it is rightly held, and the discovery of a standard of judgement, comparable to the balance that we have devised for the determining of weights, or the carpenter's rule for determining whether things are straight or crooked.

Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?

But to myself all predictions are favorable if I wish them to be, since it is up to me to benefit from the outcome, whatever it may be.