“OF PAIN.
“Every evil is an occasion and a teacher of resolution. Every disagreeable emotion is a proof that I have been faithless to my resolutions.
“An evil vanishes, if I do not ask after it. Think of a worse situation than that in which thou art.
“Not to the evil, but to myself, do I owe my pain. Epictetus was not unhappy!
“Vanity, insensibility, and custom, make one steadfast. Wherefore not virtue still more?
“Never say, if you had not these sorrows, that you would bear others better.
“What is sixty years’ pain to eternity?
“Necessity, if it cannot be altered, becomes resignation.