Choose the hard road and expect to be laughed at. Hold on anyway.
Epictetus, Enchiridion 22
Choose the hard road and expect to be laughed at. Hold on anyway.
Epictetus, Enchiridion 22
The source
"Choose the hard road and expect to be laughed at. Hold on anyway." Epictetus said it in Enchiridion 22. Translated by George Long, 1877.
"prepare yourself from the beginning to be ridiculed ... hold on to the things which seem to you best"George Long, 1877, Enchiridion 22.
Who said it
Epictetus (c. 50–135 AD). Born enslaved, became the most influential Stoic teacher of his age. His student Arrian wrote down the Discourses and the Enchiridion.
Questions
- Who said "Choose the hard road and expect to be laughed at. Hold on anyway."?
- Epictetus (c. 50–135 AD). Source: Enchiridion 22.
- What is the original wording?
- prepare yourself from the beginning to be ridiculed ... hold on to the things which seem to you best (George Long, 1877). Translated by George Long, 1877.
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