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CLXXXI

When Xanthippe was chiding Socrates for making scanty preparation for entertaining his friends, he answered: — ”If they are friends of ours, they will not care for that; if they are not, we shall care nothing for them!”

CLXXXII

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, “He who is content.”

CLXXXIII

Favorinus(20) tells us how Epictetus would also say that there were two faults far graver and fouler than any others — inability to bear, and inability to forbear, when we neither patiently bear the blows that must be borne, nor abstain from the things and the pleasures we ought to abstain from.