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We are like travellers at an inn, or guests at a stranger's table ; whatever is offered we take with thankfulness, and sometimes, when the turn comes, we may refuse ; in the former case we are a worthy guest of the gods, and in the latter we appear as a sharer in their power.

Anyone who finds life intolerable is free to quit it, but we should not abandon our appointed role without sufficient reason.

The Stoic sage will never find life intolerable and will complain of no one, either God or human.

Those who go wrong we should pardon and treat with compassion, since it is from ignorance that they err, being as it were blind.