Another nickel plating project

 "The things you need are few and easy to come by; but the things you imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied." - Epicurus

If at first you don't succeed...

 ... learn to live with failure!  Kidding.  Try until you get it right - or at least as well as you can do it.

"Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nickel Plating amateur hour

 "All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers.

For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall.

Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must be the life of those who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep.

By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca