These are the movements of fever, which health cannot imitate.
Epictetus concludes that since there are consistent Christians all men can easily be so.
The three kinds of lust have made three sects, and philosophers have done no other thing than follow one of the three lusts.
What the Stoics propose is so difficult and so idle.
The Stoics lay down that all who are not at the highest degree of wisdom are equally frivolous and vicious, as those who are in two inches under water....
Philosophers.—A fine thing to cry to a man who does not know himself, that of himself he should come to God. And a fine thing also to say to a man who knows himself.