And I would have you think of this night and day; for this argument will spread itself, and take up more room some time or other, and not be confined to pain alone; for if the motives to all our actions are to avoid disgrace and acquire honor, we may not only despise the stings of pain, but the storms of fortune, especially if we have recourse to that retreat which was pointed out in our yesterday's discussion; for, as if some God had advised a man who was pursued by pirates to throw himself overboard, saying, "There is something at hand to receive you; either a dolphin will take you up, as it did Arion of Methymna; or those horses sent by Neptune to Pelops (who are said to have carried chariots so rapidly as to be borne up by the waves) will receive you, and convey you wherever you please.

Cast away all fear." So, though your pains be ever so sharp and disagreeable, if the case is not such that it is worth your while to endure them, you see whither you may betake yourself.

I think this will do for the present.

But perhaps you still abide by your opinion.
_A._ Not in the least, indeed; and I hope I am freed by these two days' discourses from the fear of two things that I greatly dreaded.
_M._ To-morrow, then, for rhetoric, as we were saying.

But I see we must not drop our philosophy.
_A._ No, indeed; we will have the one in the forenoon, and this at the usual time.
_M._ It shall be so, and I will comply with your very laudable inclinations.
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