Volume 1 - Discourses - Books I - II - College of Stoic Philosophers

3That is, God, Compare note on I. 25, 13. 205BOOK I. xxix. 65-xxx. 5excused the jailor who wept for him when hewas about to drink the poison, and said, " Howgenerously he has wept for us 'J1Does ! lie., then,,say to the "jailor,, This is why we sent the womenaway " ? 2 No,, but he makes this latter remark tohis intimate friends, to those who were fit to hearit ;but the jailor he treats with consideration likea child.CHAPTER XXXWhat aid ought we to have ready at hand in difficulties ?WHEN you come into the presence of some prominentman,, remember that Another 3 looks fromabove on what istaking place, and that you mustplease Him rather than this man. He, then, whois above asks of " you, In your school what did youcall exile and imprisonment and bonds arid death anddisrepute " " ? I called them things indifferent.' *'