The Enchiridion - Epictetus (ereader with dictionary .TXT) 📗

Therefore, at the same time that we lie, we are immediately prepared to show how it is demonstrated that lying is not right. LII

Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:

“Conduct me, Jove, and you, O Destiny,
Wherever your decrees have fixed my station.”

Cleanthes

“I follow cheerfully; and, did I not,
Wicked and wretched, I must follow still
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed
Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.”

Euripides, Frag. 965

And this third:

“O Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be. Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed, but hurt me they cannot.”

Plato’s Crito and Apology Colophon

The Enchiridion
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