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He who bears in mind what man is will never be troubled at any thing which happens.

For making a good voyage a pilot (master) and wind are necessary: and for happiness reason and art.

We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn.

He is unreasonable who is grieved (troubled) at the things which happen from the necessity of nature.

Of the things which are, God has put some of them in our power, and some he has not. In our own power he has placed that which is the best and the most important, that indeed through which he himself is happy, the use of appearances. For when this use is rightly employed, there is freedom, happiness, tranquillity, constancy: and this is also justice and law, and temperance, and every virtue. But all other things he has not placed in our power. Wherefore we also ought to be of one mind with God, and making this division of things, to look after those which are in our power; and of the things not in our power, to intrust them to the Universe, and whether it should require our children, or our country, or our body, or any thing else, willingly to give them up.