If, indeed, we cannot be happy, the fault is generally in ourselves. Socrates lived under the Thirty Tyrants. Epictetus was a poor slave, and yet how much we owe him!

• 的确，如果我们不能快乐，其过失一般都在我们自己。苏格拉底在三十暴君之下生活。厄匹克特泰是个可怜的奴隶，可是我们受到他的恩惠真多啊！