Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach