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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson), book 1 (search)
How from the doctrine of our relationship to god we are to deduce its consequences.
If what philosophers say of the kinship between
God and men be true, what has any one to do
but, like Socrates, when he is Asked what countryman
he is, never to say that he is a citizen of Athens, or of
Corinth, but of the universe? For why, if you limit
yourself to Athens, do you not farther limit yourself
to that mere corner of Athens where your body was
brought forth? Is it not, evidently, from some larger
local tie, which comprehends, not only that comer
and your whole house, but the whole country of your
fathers, that you call yourself an Athenian, or a Corinthian? He, then, who understands the administration
of the universe, and has learned that the principal and
greatest and most comprehensive of all things is this
vast system, extending from men to God: and that
from Him the seeds of being are descended not only
to one's father or grandfather, but to all things that
are produced and born on e