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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 132 0 Browse Search
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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson), book 2 (search)
reason he was believed to be the son of God, and was so. In obedience to him, he went about extirpating injustice and lawless force. But you are not Hercules, nor able to extirpate the evils of others; nor even Theseus, to extirpate the evils of Attica. Extirpate your own then. Expel, instead of Procrustes and Sciron,Two famous robbers who infested Attica. and were at last killed by Theseus. - C. grief, fear, desire, envy, malevolence, avarice, effeminacy, intemperance. But these can be no otheAttica. and were at last killed by Theseus. - C. grief, fear, desire, envy, malevolence, avarice, effeminacy, intemperance. But these can be no otherwise expelled than by looking up to God alone, as your pattern; by attaching yourself to him alone, and being consecrated to his commands. If you wish for anything else, you will, with sighs and groans, follow what is stronger than you; always seeking prosperity without, and never able to find it. For you seek it where it is not, and neglect to seek it where it is.