None
of these things ought to be called a man's, which do not belong to a
man, as man. They are not required of a man, nor does man's nature
promise them, nor are they the means of man's nature attaining its
end. Neither then does the end of man lie in these things, nor yet
that which aids to the accomplishment of this end, and that which
aids towards this end is that which is good. Besides, if any of these
things did belong to man, it would not be right for a man to despise
them and to set himself against them; nor would a man be worthy of
praise who showed that he did not want these things, nor would he who
stinted himself in any of them be good, if indeed these things were
good. But now the more of these things a man deprives himself of, or
of other things like them, or even when he is deprived of any of
them, the more patiently he endures the loss, just in the same degree
he is a better man.
(podcast episode) (original Greek)
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