Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:—Conduct me, Zeus, and thou, O Destiny,Wherever your decrees have fixed my lot.I follow cheerfully; and, did I not,Wicked and wretched, I must follow still.Cleanthes, in Diogenes Laertius, quoted also by Seneca, Epistle 107.- H. Whoe’er yields properly to Fate is deemedWise among men, and knows the laws of Heaven.Euripides, Fragments.—H. And this third:—O Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be.Plato, Crito,17-H. Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed; but hurt me they cannot.Apology, 18. -H.