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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Epictetus, Golden Sayings 112


Death? Let it come when it will, whether it smite but a part of the whole.

Fly, you tell me—fly! But where shall I fly? Can any man cast me beyond the limits of the World? It may not be! 

And wheresoever I go, there shall I still find Sun, Moon, and Stars; there I shall find dreams, and omens, and converse with the Gods! 

IMAGE: Sebastiaen Vrancx, Aeneas Meeting His Father in the Elysium (1597)


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