IF a person had delivered up your body to anyone whom he met in his way, you would
certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame
in delivering up your own mind to be disconcerted
and confronted by anyone who happens to give
you ill language?
EPICTETUS. MANUAL. 38.
WHAT pain soever thou art in, let this
presently come to thy mind, that it is not
a thing whereof thou needest to be ashamed,
neither is it a thing whereby thy understanding,
that hath the government of all, can be made
worse.
MARCUS AURELIUS. MEDITATIONS. Book vii. 35.
"THE philosophers talk paradoxes."
And are there not paradoxes in other arts? What is more paradoxical than the pricking anyone's eye to make him see? If a person was to tell this to one ignorant of surgery, would not he laugh at him? Where is the wonder then, if in philosophy too, many truths appear paradoxes to the ignorant!
And are there not paradoxes in other arts? What is more paradoxical than the pricking anyone's eye to make him see? If a person was to tell this to one ignorant of surgery, would not he laugh at him? Where is the wonder then, if in philosophy too, many truths appear paradoxes to the ignorant!
EPICTETUS. DISCOURSES. Book iii. §11. ¶1.
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