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

BOOK II. xvi. 28-34out delay, being grateful for the time in which hehad the use of it all this ifyou do not wish to becrying for your nurse and !your mammy For whatdifference does it make what object a man has aweakness for and depends upon? In what respectare you superior to the man who weeps for a maid,ifyou grieve for a trivialgymnasium, a paltry colonnade,a group of youngsters., and that way of spendingyour time ? Someone else comes and grievesbecause he is no longer going to drink the waterof Dirce. 1What, is the water of the Marciaii aqueductinferior to that of Dirce ?ceNay, but I wasaccustomed to that water." And you will getaccustomed to this in turn. And then, if youbecome addicted to something of this kind, weepfor this too in turn, and try to write a line after thepattern of that of Euripides :To Nero's baths and Marcian founts once more. 2Behold how tragedy arises, when everyday eventsbefall fools !e