22.  Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.[A]

23.  Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae,—­bugbears to frighten children.

24.  The Lacedaemonians at their public spectacles used to set seats in the shade for strangers, but themselves sat down anywhere.

25.  Socrates excused himself to Perdiccas[B] for not going to him, saying, It is because I would not perish by the worst of all ends; that is, I would not receive a favor and then be unable to return it.

26.  In the writings of the [Ephesians][C] there was this precept, constantly to think of some one of the men of former times who practiced virtue.

    [A] The story is told by Horace in his Satires (ii. 6), and by
    others since but not better.

    [B] Perhaps the emperor made a mistake here, for other writers
    say that it was Archelaus, the son of Perdiccas, who invited
    Socrates to Macedonia.

    [C] Gataker suggested [Greek:  Epekoureion] for [Greek: 
    Ephesion].

27.  The Pythagoreans bid us in the morning look to the heavens that we may be reminded of those bodies which continually do the same things and in the same manner perform their work, and also be reminded of their purity and nudity.  For there is no veil over a star.

28.  Consider what a man Socrates was when he dressed himself in a skin, after Xanthippe had taken his cloak and gone out, and what Socrates said to his friends who were ashamed of him and drew back from him when they saw him dressed thus.

29.  Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.  Much more is this so in life.

30.  A slave thou art:  free speech is not for thee.

31.  And my heart laughed within.
                          Odyssey, ix. 413.

32.  And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words. 
                 HESIOD, Works and Days, 184.

33.  To look for the fig in winter is a mad-man’s act:  such is he who looks for his child when it is no longer allowed (Epictetus, iii. 24, 87).

34.  When a man kisses his child, said Epictetus, he should whisper to himself, “To-morrow perchance thou wilt die.”—­But those are words of bad omen.—­“No word is a word of bad omen,” said Epictetus, “which expresses any work of nature; or if it is so, it is also a word of bad omen to speak of the ears of corn being reaped” (Epictetus, iii. 24, 88).

35.  The unripe grape, the ripe bunch, the dried grape, are all changes, not into nothing, but into something which exists not yet (Epictetus, iii. 24).

36.  No man can rob us of our free will (Epictetus, iii. 22, 105).

37.  Epictetus also said, a man must discover an art [or rules] with respect to giving his assent; and in respect to his movements he must be careful that they be made with regard to circumstances, that they be consistent with social interests, that they have regard to the value of the object; and as to sensual desire, he should altogether keep away from it; and as to avoidance [aversion], he should not show it with respect to any of the things which are not in our power.