When a raven has croaked inauspiciously, let not the
appearance hurry you away with it; but straightway
make a distinction in your mind and say, None of these
things is signified to me, but either to my poor body, or
to my small property, or to my reputation, or to my
children or to my wife: but to me all significations are
auspicious if I choose. For whatever of these things
results, it is in my power to derive benefit from it.
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The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheridion and Fragments. Epictetus. George Long. translator. London. George Bell and Sons. 1890.
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