Becoming Quote by Pliny the Elder
“As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.”
![“Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.” quote by Arthur Helps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/339/arthur-helps-5833_chains_be-cheerful-and-grateful-for-the-good-th_1063388.jpg)
