| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8938 |
| AUTHOR: | Epictetus (A.D. c. 50c. 138) |
| QUOTATION: | O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Discourses. Chap. xiii. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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