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We must regard as vain and foolish such exclamations as these : ‘But
he ought not to have been snatched away while young !’ For who
may say what ought to be ? Many other things, of which one may say ‘
they ought not to have been done,’ have been done, and are done,
and will be done over and over again. For we have come into this world, not
to make laws for its governance, but to obey the commandments of the gods
who preside over the universe, and the decrees of Fate or Providence.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. 2.
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