“Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.” Uncle Vanya
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Enchiridion
All that is from the gods is full of Providence. Book II
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one? Dead Souls
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