Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings
Musonius Rufus
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A collection of lectures and sayings from the Roman Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus, preserved by his students.
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“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.”
“If pleasure is how we should measure how attractive things are, then nothing should attract us more than self-control; and if pain is how we should measure what we should avoid, then nothing should be more painful than a lack of self-control.”
“It is characteristic of a civilized and humane temperament not to respond to wrongs as a beast would and not to be implacable towards those who offend, but to provide them with a model of decent behavior.”
“We will train both soul and body when we accustom ourselves to cold, heat, thirst, hunger, scarcity of food, hardness of bed, abstaining from pleasures, and enduring pains.”