Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house takes notice of it, and, seeing him insolently giving orders, drags him forth and chastises him. So it is also in the great City, the World. Here also is there a Lord of the House, who orders all things...


Golden Sayings of Epictetus


Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house...

Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house...

Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house...

Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house...