Stoic Snippets 199

If you are able, correct by teaching those who do wrong; but if you cannot, remember that indulgence is given to you for this purpose. 

And the gods, too, are indulgent to such persons; and for some purposes they even help them to get health, wealth, reputation; so kind they are. 

And it is in your power also; or say, who hinders you? 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.11 

IMAGE: Bernardo Strozzi, 

Eratosthenes Teaching in Alexandria

 (1635)