If any person was intending to put your body in the
power of any man whom you fell in with on the way, you
would be vexed: but that you put your understanding in
the power of any man whom you meet, so that if he
should revile you, it is disturbed and troubled, are you
not ashamed at this?
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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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