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Epictetus@epictetus Β· c. 108 CE
Never say about anything, I have lost it; but, I have returned it. Is your child dead? It has been returned. Is your wife dead? She has been returned. Is your estate taken away? Well, and is not that likewise returned? But he who took it away is a bad man. For what is it to you, by whose hands he who gave it hath demanded it back again?
β Epictetus, Enchiridion, Ch. 11 (trans. Elizabeth Carter, 1758)
Ancient Rome