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29 If, then, one keeps these in mind as god-given injunctions, he will be able easily to adapt them to all the circumstances of life, and to bear with such circumstances intelligently, by being heedful of his own nature, and heedful, in whatever may befall him, not to go beyond the limit of propriety, either in being elated to boastfulness or in being humbled and cast down to wailings and lamentations, through weakness of the spirit and the fear of death which is implanted in us as a result of our ignorance of what is wont to happen in life in accordance with the decree of necessity or destiny. Excellent is the advice which the Pythagoreans Carmina Aurea, 17. gave, saying: Whatsoe’er woes by the gods’ dispensation all mortals must suffer, What be the fate you must bear, you should bear it and not be indignant. And the tragic poet Aeschylus Attributed to Euripides by Stobaeus, Florilegium, cviii. 43; Cf. Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag., Euripides, No. 1078. says: It is the mark of just and knowing men In woes to feel no anger at the gods; and EuripidesFrom an unknown play; Cf. Nauck, ibid., Euripides, No. 965.: Of mortals he who yields to fate we think Is wise and knows the ways of Providence; and in another place From the Melanippe; cf. Nauck, ibid., Euripides, No. 505. he says: Of mortals he who bears his lot aright To me seems noblest and of soundest sense.