He that can bear those things which men befall,
Him wise and modest we may justly call.
30. But many there are who blame all things; and whatsoever
unexpectedly happens to them, they think is procured them by the
malignity of Fortune and the spite of some evil genius. Wherefore they
are querulous and cry out upon every occasion, inveighing against
the bitterness of their mishaps. Their complaints we may not unfitly
obviate with this expression,—