Since little choice is possible, and since there is no escape for the body from the stern law of Necessity, no one loves this goddess and everybody ignores her cult.
Yet her compelling power—with or without cult—remains unsurpassed in all circumstances. And given that she must be obeyed unto the most minute detail, this counsel has been given so that man might be reconciled with his condition:
"If a man endeavours to ... persuade himself to accept of his own accord what needs must befall him, he will have a very reasonable and harmonious life."
Yet her compelling power—with or without cult—remains unsurpassed in all circumstances. And given that she must be obeyed unto the most minute detail, this counsel has been given so that man might be reconciled with his condition:
"If a man endeavours to ... persuade himself to accept of his own accord what needs must befall him, he will have a very reasonable and harmonious life."
[Arrian's discourses of Epictetus, Fragment 8].
A similar thought occurred to rebellious Prometheus 1 when he was chained in Caucasus:
"I must bear my allotted doom as lightly as I can, knowing that the might of Necessity permits no resistance."
[Prometheus 1. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 104]
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