What then: must we provide these things for ourselves, and introduce a boar, and a lion, and a hydra, into our country?
This would be madness and folly. But as they were in being, and to be met with, they were proper subjects to set off and exercise Hercules. Do you therefore likewise, being sensible of this, inspect the faculties you have, and after taking a view of them, say, "Bring on me now, O Jupiter, what difficulty thou wilt, for I have faculties granted me by thee, and abilities by which I may acquire honour and ornament to myself." — No; but you sit trembling, for fear this or that should happen; and lamenting, and mourning, and groaning at what doth happen; and then you accuse the gods.
EPICTETUS. DISCOURSES. Book i. §6. ¶6.
Wow, I certainly hide away in fear and trembling. We all need to step boldly into the light and grasp what life hands us fully by the horns in order to fully BE.
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