V. Epictetus. 1909-14. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus. The Harvard Classics

Epictetus. (c.A.D. 50–c.A.D. 138). The Golden Sayings of Epictetus.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.


Rufus 1 used to say, If you have leisure to praise me, what I say is naught. In truth he spoke in such wise, that each of us who sat there, thought that some one had accused him to Rufus:—so surely did he lay his finger on the very deeds we did: so surely display the faults of each before his very eyes.	1

Note 1. C. Musonius Rufus, a Stoic philosopher, whose lectures Epictetus had attended. [back]