The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Epictetus, Golden Sayings 126


Have you again forgotten? Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance's sake, but for the sake of having done right? . . . 

"Is there no reward then?" 

Reward! do you seek any greater reward for a good man than doing what is right and just? 

Yet at the Great Games you look for nothing else; there the victor's crown you deem enough. 

Seems it to you so small a thing and worthless, to be a good man, and happy therein? 


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