Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery. On Duties
To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. Book IV
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man. Book VI
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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