Find the right scene
Above all, keep a close watch on this - that you are never so tied to your former acquaintances and friends that you are pulled down to their level. If you don't, you'll be ruined... You must choose whether to be loved by these friends and remain the same person, or to become a better person at the cost of those friends.. if you try to have it both ways you will neither make progress nor keep wh..
Don't unintentionally hand over your freedom.
If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you'd be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled - have you no shame in that? EPITETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28 만약 누군가 당신의 시신을 그냥 지나가는 이에게 넘겨주었다면, 분노할 것입니다. 그러나 당신은 어떤 사람에게나 당신의 마음을 맡기고, 그들이 학대할 수 있게 하고, 그로 인해 혼란스럽고 괴로워지도록 합니다. 당신은 그에 대해 부끄러움을 느끼지 않나요?
Don't tell yourself stories
In public avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs. - EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 33.14 공공장소에서는 너의 업적과 위험에 대해 자주 얘기하지 말아야 합니다. 너의 위험했던 일들을 되새기는 것이 즐거워도, 다른 사람들에게는 그다지 즐거운 일이 아닐 수 있습니다.
Cutting back on the costly
"So, concerning the things we pursue, and for which we vigorously exert ourselves, we owe this consideration. either there is northing useful in them, or most aren't useful. Some of them are superfluous, while others aren't worth that much. But we don't discern this and see them as free, when they cost us dearly." Seneca, Moral Letters 42.6 "우리가 추구하고 힘껏 노력하는 일에 대해서 생각해 보아야 합니다. 그것들 중에 유용한 것은 없거나..