it must be endured:”  make a virtue of necessity, and conform thyself to undergo it. [3570]_Si longa est, levis est; si gravis est, brevis est._ If it be long, ’tis light; if grievous, it cannot last.  It will away, dies dolorem minuit, and if nought else, time will wear it out; custom will ease it; [3571] oblivion is a common medicine for all losses, injuries, griefs, and detriments whatsoever, [3572]"and when they are once past, this commodity comes of infelicity, it makes the rest of our life sweeter unto us:”  [3573] Atque haec olim meminisse juvabit, “recollection of the past is pleasant:”  “the privation and want of a thing many times makes it more pleasant and delightsome than before it was.”  We must not think the happiest of us all to escape here without some misfortunes,

[3574]  ------“Usque adeo nulla est sincera voluptas,
Solicitumque aliquid laetis intervenit.”------

Heaven and earth are much unlike:  [3575]"Those heavenly bodies indeed are freely carried in their orbs without any impediment or interruption, to continue their course for innumerable ages, and make their conversions:  but men are urged with many difficulties, and have diverse hindrances, oppositions still crossing, interrupting their endeavours and desires, and no mortal man is free from this law of nature.”  We must not therefore hope to have all things answer our own expectation, to have a continuance of good success and fortunes, Fortuna nunquam perpetuo est bona.  And as Minutius Felix, the Roman consul, told that insulting Coriolanus, drunk with his good fortunes, look not for that success thou hast hitherto had; [3576]"It never yet happened to any man since the beginning of the world, nor ever will, to have all things according to his desire, or to whom fortune was never opposite and adverse.”  Even so it fell out to him as he foretold.  And so to others, even to that happiness of Augustus; though he were Jupiter’s almoner, Pluto’s treasurer, Neptune’s admiral, it could not secure him.  Such was Alcibiades’s fortune, Narsetes, that great Gonsalvus, and most famous men’s, that as [3577]Jovius concludes, “it is almost fatal to great princes, through their own default or otherwise circumvented with envy and malice, to lose their honours, and die contumeliously.”  ’Tis so, still hath been, and ever will be, Nihil est ab omni parte beatum,

       “There’s no perfection is so absolute,
        That some impurity doth not pollute.”

Whatsoever is under the moon is subject to corruption, alteration; and so long as thou livest upon earth look not for other. [3578]"Thou shalt not here find peaceable and cheerful days, quiet times, but rather clouds, storms, calumnies, such is our fate.”  And as those errant planets in their distinct orbs have their several motions, sometimes direct, stationary, retrograde, in apogee, perigee, oriental, occidental, combust, feral, free, and as our astrologers will,