"The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity."
— Temperance

January 1, 1970

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Seneca the Younger, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 576.