Audiobook: Apointment with Death, Agatha Christie, Read by Hugh Fraser 还是Poirot的故事
Discourses, Epictetus, Book I-2, Preserve one’s character
- People can put up anything that is rational And they are put off by anything that they think is irrational or unreasonable
- But people’s idea of reasonable and unreasonable are different. The example of working as a bathroom attendant Some people accept it because it brings food and keeps them alive. Others do not.
- therefore one’s nature or character plays an important role; each person has a “price” at which they sell their will
- although we are the ones that know our own character and preferences, we still need “winter exercise” to find and maintain our character, to take care of the character and body even if we are not going to be Socrates or Milo (a great athlete).
“Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God’s sake, don’t sell it cheap.”