Book A
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We ought to avoid the friendship of the bad and the enmity of the good.
154
The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies.
155
When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
156
Let no man think that he is loved by any man when he loves no man.
157
You ought to choose both physician and friend not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
158
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
159
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
160
Whoever are least disturbed in mind by calamities, and in act struggle most against them, these are the best men in states and in private life.
161
Those who have been instructed, like those who have been trained in the palaestra, though they may have fallen, rise again from their misfortune quickly and skilfully.
162
We ought to call in reason like a good physician as a help in misfortune.
163
A fool having enjoyed good fortune like intoxication to a great amount becomes more foolish.
164
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
165
He who bears in mind what man is will never be trou- bled at any thing which happens.
166
For making a good voyage a pilot (master) and wind are necessary: and for happiness reason and art.
167
We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn.
