Excerpt from Epicteti Enchiridion: The Morals of Epictetus, Made English, in a Poetical ParaphraseTain his wisdom, but grow into equal admira tion. Epictetus would have all philosophy to consist in continence and patience, for which reason he had always those two words in his mouth. Bear and Forbear words which, in Greek, have a elegance, there being but the difference of a single let ter between them, and which were generally as well practiced as taught by him 3 for, dur ing the time of his slavery, his brutal master Epaphroditus would make it his ordinary pastime to wrench Epictetus, his slave's leg, who smilingly, and without the least pamion, told him, that if he continued his sport he would break it, which, accordingly, he did. Did not I tell you, then said he, you would break my leg? How great a piece of patience was this, scarce to be paralleled, except in this other of his own, which was, that when his iron lamp, be much valued, was stolen out of his but, all he said was, Ior W8. Vii.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.