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Monday, November 12, 2018

Epictetus, Golden Sayings 54


In the same way my friend Heraclitus, who had a trifling suit about a petty farm at Rhodes, first showed the judges that his cause was just, and then at the finish cried, "I will not entreat you, nor do I care what sentence you pass. It is you who are on your trial, not I!" And so he ended the case.

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