Epicurus. xxv.
Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
Epicurus. xxvii.
Footnotes
[757:1] See Pope, page [317]. Also Plutarch, page [736].
[757:2] Μηδὲν ἄγαν, nequid nimis.
[758:1] De mortuis nil nisi bonum (Of the dead be nothing said but what is good.)—Of unknown authorship.
[758:2] See Hesiod, page [693].
[758:3] Quoted by Epictetus (Fragment lxii.), "Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is the proof of a gentle, the other of a savage nature."