You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in
which it is not in your power to conquer. Take care
then when you observe a man honoured before others or
possessed of great power or highly esteemed for any
reason, not to suppose him happy, and be not carried
away by the appearance. For if the nature of the good is
in our power, neither envy nor jealousy will have a place
in us. But you yourself will not wish to be a general
or senator (πρύτανις) or consul, but a free man: and there
is only one way to this, to despise (care not for) the
things which are not in our power.
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