Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.