CALL FOR PEACE

the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.”      

EPICTETUS– “The necessity of circumstances proves friend and detects enemies.”

EPICTETUS –“You are a principal work, a fragment of God himself, you have in yourself a part of Him. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth? You bear God about with you, poor wretch, and know it not… You bear Him about within you and are unaware that you are defiling Him with unclean thoughts and foul actions. If an image of God were present, you would not dare to do any of the things you do; yet when God Himself is present within you and sees and hears all things, you are not ashamed of thinking! and acting thus: 0 slow to understand your nature, and estranged from God!”  

EPICURUS – “Justice is a contract of expediency, entered up on to prevent men harming or being harmed.”

EPICURUS – “We men live in a city without walls.”

EPICURUS –“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”   

EPICURUS -“Human nature is not to be coerced but persuaded and we shall persuade her by satisfying the necessary desires if they are not going to be injurious but, if they are going to injure, by relentlessly banning them.”

EPICURUS –“Human nature is not to be coerced but persuaded and we shall persuade by satisfying the necessary desires if they are not going to be injurious but, if they are going to injure, by relentlessly banning them.”  

EPICURUS –“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”         

EPICURUS –“So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, and then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.”

EPICURUS –“They will never be happy for whom enough is never quite enough.” 

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