I, TOO the other day had an iron lamp burning
before my household deities. Hearing a noise
at the window, I ran. I found my lamp was
stolen. I considered, that he who took it away
did nothing unaccountable. What then? Tomorrow,
says I, you shall find an earthen one;
for a man loses only what he hath. I have lost
my coat. Ay, because you had a coat. I have a
pain in my head. Why, can you have a pain in
your horns? Why, then, are you out of humour?
For loss and pain can be only of such things as are
possessed.
EPICTETUS. DISCOURSES. Book i. §18. ¶1.
THOU seest that those things, which for a man
to hold on in a prosperous course, and to live
a divine life, are requisite and necessary, are not
many, for the gods will require no more of any
man, that shall but keep and observe these things.
MARCUS AURELIUS. MEDITATIONS. Book ii. 2.
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