Letter 5 — The Philosopher’s Mean (§9)

“Beasts avoid the dangers which they see, and when they have escaped them are free from care; but we men torment ourselves over that which is to come as well as over that which is past. Many of our blessings bring bane to us; for memory recalls the tortures of fear, while foresight anticipates them. The present alone can make no man wretched. Farewell. ↑ i.e., of the Stoic school. ↑ Frag. 25 Fowler.”