Chapter 52

Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:

"Conduct me, Jove, and you, O Destiny, Wherever your decrees have fixed my station." Cleanthes

"I follow cheerfully; and, did I not, Wicked and wretched, I must follow still Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven." Euripides, Frag. 965

And this third:

"O Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be. Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed, but hurt me they cannot." Plato's Crito and Apology

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.