Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.