"But I haven't at any time been hindered in my will, nor forced against it. And how is this possible? I have bound up my choice to act with the will of God. God wills that I be sick, such is my will. He wills that I should choose something, so do I. He wills that I reach for something, or something be given to me--I wish for the same. What God doesn't will, I do not wish for."-EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.89
(“하지만 나는 언제라도 내 의지가 방해받지 않았고, 내 의지에 반하는 행동을 강요받지 않았습니다. 어떻게 그게 가능했을까요? 나는 내 선택을 신의 뜻과 함께 묶어 두었습니다. 신이 내가 병들기를 원하신다면, 나 역시 그렇게 원합니다. 신이 내가 무언가를 선택하길 바라신다면, 나도 그렇게 합니다. 신이 내가 무언가를 바라거나 받기를 바라신다면, 나 역시 같은 것을 원합니다. 신이 원하지 않는 것을 나는 원하지 않습니다.” -에픽테토스, 담화록, 4.1.89)
When General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote to his wife on the eve of the invasion of Normandy, he told her, "Everything we could think of has been done, the troops are fit, everybody is doing his best. The answer is in the lap of the gods." He'd done everything he could— and now, what would happen would happen and as Epictetus might say, he was ready to bear whatever that was. In fact, Eisenhower had written another ...