- Socrates dressed in a towel, the time Xanthippe took his
cloak and went out. The friends who were embarrassed and
avoided him when they saw him dressed like that, and what
Socrates said to them. - Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still
more so life. - “... For you/Are but a slave and have no claim to
logos.” - “But my heart rejoiced.”
- “And jeer at virtue with their taunts and sneers.”
- Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old
age. - As you kiss your son good night, says Epictetus, whisper
to yourself, “He may be dead in the morning.”
Don’t tempt fate, you say.By talking about a natural event? Is fate tempted when we
speak of grain being reaped?
- Grapes.
Unripe... ripened... then raisins.