Epictetus

[joanna bujes]

At 11:46 AM 07/03/2002 -0400, Bill wrote:
>I suspect this has something to do with fundamental human nature. People 
>prefer to be free. But if the find themselves unfree, living their lives 
>under the stick, they either become surly and resentful, or lifeless and 
>mechanical.

Go Bill!!!

But this brings to mind this quotation from Epictetus that I have mislaid: 
it's something about that if the good is real you will not want to be 
prefect or consul....but to be free. It's really quite beautiful. Any 
classicists out there who could help me find it?

Joanna