Final Exhortation and Cleanthes' Hymn

From The Enchiridion by Epictetus
The Enchiridion closes with three quotations urging total submission to providence and Socratic constancy.
Chapter 53.1

Quotes Cleanthes: 'Conduct me, Zeus, and you, O Destiny, wherever your decrees have fixed my lot.'

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Chapter 53.3

Quotes Plato's Crito: 'Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be.'

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Chapter 53.4

Quotes Plato's Apology: 'Anytus and Meletus may indeed kill me, but they cannot harm me.' The final word: virtue alone is invulnerable.

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