Quid crastina volveret ætas,
Scire nefos homini.[4]
“Thebaid,” III. 562,—Statius.
Publius Papinius Statius, a famous Roman poet, was born at Naples, about A.D. 45, and died there, about A.D. 96. His chief work is, “The Thebaid,” an epic poem in twelve books.
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
“Discourses,” Chap. xxiv,—Epictetus.
Epictetus, a celebrated Greek Stoic philosopher, was born at Hierapolis in Phrygia, about A.D. 50. No works of his have come down to our time, but his maxims were collected and published in the “Encheiridion,” or Handbook, and the “Commentaries” in eight books.
The gods looked with favour on superior courage.
—Tacitus.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, a great Latin historian, was born about A.D. 54. He wrote the dialogue “De Oratoribus,” the “Annals,” the “Agricola,” the “Germania,” (“On the Manners of the Germans”), and his “History.”
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.