Michael Rickicki

“We will train both soul and body when we accustom ourselves to cold, heat, thirst, hunger, scarcity of food, hardness of bed, abstaining from pleasures, and enduring pains.”
― Musonius Rufus, Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings

“Won’t we, therefore, be willing to endure pain in order to gain complete happiness?”
― Musonius Rufus, Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings

“Besides this, we also say that there is not only knowledge but also some origin of knowledge, which gives us cognition of the definitions.”
― C.D.C. Reeve, Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy