Sickness is an impediment to the body, but not to
the will, unless itself pleases. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will; and say this to
yourself with regard to everything that happens. For
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you will find it to be an impediment to something
else, but not truly to yourself.
The Works of Epictetus: His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Epictetus. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. translator. New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.
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