Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.