Consider what the trainers of boys do. Has a boy fallen? ‘Rise,’ they say, ‘and wrestle again until you become strong.’ You should also do something like this. For you can be confident that nothing is more trainable than the human soul.
Epictetus
Consider what the trainers of boys do. Has a boy fallen? ‘Rise,’ they say, ‘and wrestle again until you become strong.’ You should also do something like this. For you can be confident that nothing is more trainable than the human soul.