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

“Conduct me, Zeus, and thou, O Destiny,
Wherever your decrees have fixed my lot.
I follow cheerfully; and, did I not,
Wicked and wretched, I must follow still.
”

Cleanthes, in Diogenes Laertius, quoted also by Seneca, Epistle 107.- H.
[p. 2244]

“Whoe'er yields properly to Fate is deemed
Wise among men, and knows the laws of Heaven.
”

Euripides, Fragments.
- H. And this third: - “O Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be.” Plato, Crito,17-H. “Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed; but hurt me they cannot.” Apology, 18. -H. [p. 2245]


The Works of Epictetus: His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Epictetus. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. translator. New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.

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