He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.”
It is not
You will then be hurt when you think you are hurt.
You must be one man, either good or bad.
Otherwise, take notice, you will behave like children who sometimes play like wrestlers, sometimes gladiators, sometimes blow a trumpet, and sometimes act a tragedy when they have seen and admired these shows.
which depends on others else he must necessarily be a slave.
But, for your part, don’t wish to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a contempt of things not in our own control.
But if you are conquered by them, you will incur a double ridicule.
And this third:
“O Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be. Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed, but hurt me they cannot.”
Plato’s Crito and Apology
“I follow cheerfully; and, did I not,
Wicked and wretched, I must follow still
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed
Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.”
Euripides, Frag. 965
Therefore, at the same time that we lie, we are immediately prepared to show how it is demonstrated that lying is not right.
