Letter V
We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who fell to our lot. But we can choose whose children we would like to be. Cease to hope, and you will cease to fear.
from Moral Letters to Lucilius · tr. Richard Mott Gummere (1917)
Letter V
We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who fell to our lot. But we can choose whose children we would like to be. Cease to hope, and you will cease to fear.
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