An idea from Discourses and Enchiridion

Plenty of students can recite the doctrine, and the teacher wants one who lives it. “Show me a man who is sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.” He admits he hasn’t seen one yet.

From Discourses and Enchiridion by Epictetus

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