Enchiridion XVII

Epictetus, tr. T. W. Higginson (1865)

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Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses–if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be his pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business–to act well the given part, but to choose it belongs to another.

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