>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?
Encheiridion, 19:
Loeb trans:
"... For if the true nature of the good is one of the things that are under our control, there is no place for either envy or jealousy; and you yourself will not wish to be a praetor or a senator or a consul but a free man..."
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