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Life of Demonax (36-37)

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To a rhetorician who had given a very poor declamation he recommended constant practice. Why, I am always practising to myself,’ says the man. Ah, that accounts for it; you are accustomed to such a foolish audience.’

Observing a soothsayer one day officiating for pay, he said: I cannot see how you can ask pay. If it is because you can change the course of Fate, you cannot possibly put the figure high enough: if everything is settled by Heaven, and not by you, what is the good of your soothsaying?”

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