When a raven happens to croak unluckily, be not
overcome by appearances, but discriminate, and say,
" Nothing is portended to me; but either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or
wife. But to me all portents are lucky, if I will.
For whatsoever happens, it belongs to me to derive
advantage therefrom."
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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