Ch. 53
Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims
ready at hand: -
Conduct me, Zeus, and thou, O Destiny,
Wherever your decrees have fixed my lot.
I follow cheerfully; and, did I not,
Wicked and wretched, I must follow still. Cleanthes, in Diogenes Laertius, quoted also by Seneca, Epistle 107.- H.
Whoe'er yields properly to Fate is deemed
Wise among men, and knows the laws of Heaven. Euripides, Fragments. - H.
And this third: -
O Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it
be. Plato, Crito,17-H.
Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed; but
hurt me they cannot. Apology, 18. -H.
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