Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-11
ANCIENT WISDOM.

l do not shrink from praise, but refuge
to make it the end and term OF right
[Perseus.
Misfortune and losses and calumny dis
appear before virtue as the taper before the
sun.-[Seneca.
He who wishes his virtue to be blazed
abroad is not llboriDg for virtue, but for
fame.-[Senec
Prsy for healthy mind in healthy
body. Ask for brave soul unsecured by
DEATH Juvenal.
We do not lovs virtue because it gives
US pleasure, but it gives us pleasure be-
cause we love it, Seneca.
Never forget that it is possible to be at
once a divine man, yet a man unknown to
the world. Il Marcus Aurelius.
No man is born for himself alone, but he
owes himself in part to his country, in pa,t
to his parents, and in part to his friends.-
Plato.
Be Just and temperate and a follower of
the gods; but be so with simplicity, for
the pride of modesty is the worst OF all.
Marcus Aurelius.
Slavery is custom of the law of nations,
by which one man, contrary to the law OF
nature, is subjected to the dominion of an
other.-[ Florentinus.
a man should be nothing for ostentation,
but ell for conscience he should seek the
reward of virtue in itself, and not in the
praise of man. Pliny.
There is but one thing of real value-to
cultivate truth and justice, and to live
without anger in the midst of lying ard
unjust men, Marcus Aurelius.
It is characteristic of wise man that he
looks for all his good and evil from him.
SELF. As far as his rational nature is con.
cerned, he is in no degree inferior to the
gods.-[Epictetus.
Men were born for the sake of men, that
each should assist the other. Nature or
dams that man should wish the good OF
every man, whoever he may be, for this
very reason, that he is man Cicero.
All vice should be avoided though it
were concealed from the eyes OF gods and
men, and no deeds are more laudable than
those which are done without ostentation,
and far from the sight of men.-[Cicero.
The wise man will not sin, though both
| gods and men should overlook the deed,
| for it is not through the fear OF punish
ment or of shame that he abstains from
sin it is from the desire and obligation of
wha. is just and good Perigrinus.
To ask to be paid for virtue is as if the
eye demanded recompense for seeing, or
the feet for walking. In doing good, you
should be like the vine which has produced
grapes, and asks nothing more after it has
produced its proper fruit Marcus Aure-
Illus.
You ara citizen, and part of the
world. The duty OF citizen is in nothing
to consider his own interest distinct from
that OF others, as the hand or foot, if they
sued reason and understood the law OF
nature, would do and wish nothing that
had not some relation to the res. OF the
ody.-[Epictetus.
Remember that you are but an actor,
acting whatever part the master has or
dained. 1t may be short, or it may be
long. Ii ne wishes you to represent a poor
man, do so heartily if a cripple, or mag
istrate, or private man, in each case act
your part with honor. "Never say OF
anything that you have lost it, but that
you have restored it; your wife and child
die-you have restored them your flrm
| is taken from you-that also is restored
| It is seized by an impious man. What is
it to you by whose instrumentality He
who gave it reclaims it. ~ Epictetus.