[3819]. Expeditior es ob pecuniarum jacturam. Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest. Seneca.
[3820]. Hor. “Let us cast our jewels and gems, and useless gold, the cause of all vice, into the sea, since we truly repent of our sins.”
[3821]. Jubet me posthac fortuna expeditius Philosophari.
[3822]. “I do not desire riches, nor that a price should be set upon me.”
[3823]. In frag. Quirites, multa mihi pericula domi, militae multa adversa fuere, quorum alia toleravi, alia deorum auxilio repuli et virtute mea; nunquam animus negotio defuit, nec decretis labor; nullae res nec properae nec adversae ingenium mutabant.
[3824]. Qualis mundi statis supra lunam semper serenus.
[3825]. Bona meus nullum tristioris fortunae recipit incursum, Val. lib. 4. c. 1. Qui nil potest sperare, desperet nihil.
[3826]. Hor.
[3827]. Aequam. memento rebus in arduis servare mentem, lib. 2. Od. 3.
[3828]. Epict. c. 18.