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Often appears with: the city and urban life · providence and divine governance · mourning and grief · divine governance · discipline vs childish grief
Usually: argument (1) · grief and loss (1) · exhortation (1) · lament (1)
“Thou grieve them? Never; but that shall grieve them which grieveth thee—Opinion.” Epictetus (trans. T. W. Rolleston), The Teaching of Epictetus · insight
Continuing the same counsel, he argues against craving specific places like Athens, insists that lasting satisfaction comes from perceiving divine governance, and compares grief to children crying over lost familiar things.
as in a game, stay only so long as he is entertained? A man of this stamp would easily endure such a thing as perpetual exile or sentence of death. Wilt thou not now be weaned as children are, and take more solid food, nor cry any more after thy mother and nurse, wailing like an old woman? ----"But if I quit them I shall grieve them." Thou grieve them? Never; but that shall grieve them which grieveth thee--Opinion…