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Lectures and Fragments · Fragment 31
Musonius Rufus · Fragments

Fragment 31

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Those men do not live long who have become accustomed to say to their subjects in defence of whatever they do, not, "It is my duty," but, "It is my will."1

Musonius Rufus, Lectures and Fragments, Fragment 31, translated by Cora E. Lutz (1947). The Stoic Library.