Remember that you are an actor in a drama of
such sort as the author chooses, - if short, then in a
short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be his
pleasure that you should enact a poor man, see that
you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private
citizen. For this is your business, to act well the
given part; but to choose it, belongs to another.
The Works of Epictetus: His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Epictetus. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. translator. New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.
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