Epictetus. (c.A.D. 50–c.A.D. 138). The Golden Sayings of Epictetus.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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On all occasions these thoughts should be at hand:—| | Lead me, O God, and Thou, O Destiny, 1 |
| Be what it may the goal appointed me, |
| Bravely I’ll follow; nay, and if I would not, |
| I’d prove a coward, yet must follow still! |
Again:| | Who to Necessity doth bow aright, |
| Is learn’d in wisdom and the things of God.Once more:| | Crito, if this be God’s will, so let it be. As for me, Anytus and Meletus can indeed put me to death, but injure me, never! |
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| | | Note 1. These verses are by Cleanthes, the successor of Zeno as leader of the Stoics, and author of the Hymn printed in Appendix B. [back] |
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