Show JOY THROUGH CONTROL I 1 would have men to be always in good humor provided that it arises from their own souls and is cherished in their own breasts other delights are trivial they may smooth the brow but they do not fill and affect the heart true joy is is a serene and sober emotion and they are miserably out that take laughing for rejoicing jo icing the seat of it is within and there is no cheerfulness like the resolution of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet he that can look death in the face and bid it welcome open his door to poverty and bridle his appetites this i is s the man whom providence has established in the possession of inviolable delights the pleasures of the vulgar are ungrounded thin and suler sup er ficia but the others are solid and eternal seneca |