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user-inactivated  ·  1350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dala got "Epictetus' Disources and Selected Writings" as translated by Robbert

An Excerpt

    Listen to how, Diogenes, laid low with a fever, still lectured passers-by: 'Idiots, where are you going in such a hurry? You are going a great distance to see those damned athletes compete; why not stop a bit and see a man do combat with illness?' A man of his mettle is not one to accuse God, who chose him, of unfairness in making him ill. He positively prides himself on his hardships and is bold enough to be a roadside attraction. What would he blame God for? That he cuts such an admirable figure? What would the charge be? That his virtue is too glaringly bright? Here, just remember what he says about poverty, death and pain; how he compares his happiness with that of the Great King. Or rather, he doesn't think there is any comparison. For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.

Discourses, Book III, 22 On Cynicism, 58-61

Dala, I got bad news for you. You can't have this book. It's mine now. I'm having too much fun with it. You're just gonna have to read something else.





Dala  ·  1349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would consider you reading my books great news. I'm sure between our collected books and the library's digital offerings I can find something to read while you work through that.