Necessity is irresponsible, unstable fortune, but our will is free, this may deserve blame or praise. Rather than being slaves to the fate of the physicists, it was better then to believe the stories of the gods, who at least offer the hope to appease them with prayers instead dell'atroce, inflexible necessity. The luck is not wise as a god for the masses - the deity does nothing to chance - and even something lacking in consistency. Do not you think it gives men no good or bad determines the happy life, but knows he can deliver the goods or evils great start. But it's better to be lucky that no luck but wise and foolish, and in practice it is preferable that a good design does not go through, rather than a project to be successful insane. Meditate day and night all these and other congeners, with yourself and with whom you like, and never will be prey to anxiety. Instead you will live like a god among men. It does not seem even more mortal man who lives among goods immortal. (Epicurus, "Letter to Menoeceus)
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