 Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Unhappy am I because this has happened to me? Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free...  The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus - Էջ 86Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1891 - 216 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1909 - 368 էջ
...because this has happened to me — Not, so, but Happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present...misfortune, which is not a deviation from man's nature? And does a thing seem to thee to be a deviation from man's nature, when it is not contrary to the will... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1913 - 570 էջ
...because this has happened to me — Not so, but Happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present...misfortune, which is not a deviation from man's nature ? And does a thing seem to thee to be a deviation from man's nature, when it is not contrary to the will... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - 1914 - 394 էջ
...because this has happened to me? Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present, nor fearing the future. Will, then, this which has happened prevent thee from being just, magnanimous, temperate, prudent,... | |
 | Katrina Trask - 1916 - 384 էջ
...because this has happened to me? Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future." At ! he will be a promontory — he will no longer be shifting sand! he will yield neither to the lowlapping... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1916 - 548 էջ
...I, because this has happened to me? Not so, but happy am I though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain; neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. Be cheerful, and seek no external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect,... | |
 | Chaim Stern - 2000 - 388 էջ
...because this has happened to me. — Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. . . . Will then what has happened prevent you from being just, magnanimous, temperate, prudent, secure,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 478 էջ
...I, because this has happened to me? Not so, but happy am I though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain; neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. Be cheerful, and seek no external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect,... | |
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