The inspiring words of Don Quixote, seeking to console Sancho Panza:
All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve, and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long a time, the good is close at hand.
—Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Part I, Chapter XVIII)
In the next moment he learns that their saddlebags have been stolen and they have nothing to eat.