What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.
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"If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers."
"Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well."
"What would it be like to be a donkey? To be driven by a stick, to carry burdens, to have no choice? It would be a simple life, wouldn't it?"
"What would you rather have? A beautiful garden, or a good one? A beautiful garden is one that is good; a good garden is not necessarily beautiful."
"If you are going to write, be content to be unlearned. If you are going to wrestle, be content to be beaten. For if you are not content with these things, you will not write, nor will you wrestle."
Epictetus. The Discourses as Reported By Arrian. Vol. I. Books 1 and 2.
Date: c. 1st-2nd Century AD
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