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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: greatness of soul? For having made such things to be no evils?
For placing happiness within thy reach, even when enduring them?
For open unto thee a door, when things make not for thy good?--
Depart, my friend and find fault no more!
XCIII
You are sailing to Rome (you tell me) to obtain the post of
Governor of Cnossus. You are not content to stay at home with
the honours you had before; you want something on a larger scale,
and more conspicuous. But when did you ever undertake a voyage
for the purpose of reviewing your own principles and getting rid
of any of them that proved unsound? Whom did you ever visit for
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