It needs to realize that what happens to everyone—bad and good alike—is neither good nor bad. (Hays translation) Book IV

“Is there anything surprising in one who passes from divine contemplations to the evil state of man, misbehaving himself in a ridiculous manner; if, while his eyes are blinking and before he has become accustomed to the surrounding darkness, he is compelled to fight in courts of law, or in other places, about the images or the shadows of images of justice, and is endeavouring to meet the conceptions of those who have never yet seen absolute justice?” Republic

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Julius Caesar

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. A Woman of No Importance