[ SECTION 50. In the daily affairs of life, you will have very many ]
[ SECTION 51. Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great ]
[ SECTION 52. What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, ]
[ SECTION 53. Courage comes next to prudence as a quality of mind very ]
[ CHAPTER V. — THE AGES OF LIFE. ]
INTRODUCTION.
If my object in these pages were to present a complete scheme of counsels and maxims for the guidance of life, I should have to repeat the numerous rules—some of them excellent—which have been drawn up by thinkers of all ages, from Theognis and Solomon[1] down to La Rochefoucauld; and, in so doing, I should inevitably entail upon the reader a vast amount of well-worn commonplace. But the fact is that in this work I make still less claim to exhaust my subject than in any other of my writings.