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Demonax. It is necessary, having taken up grief like a burden, to carry it without groaning.

Charicles. Men prepare tombs and grave-clothes as if they are going to use them; but they do not prepare the fearlessness and freedom from grief concerning death which they will use.

Theopompus. If anyone, possessing the most good things, spends his life in grief, he would be more miserable than all who are and who will be.

(880) From the works of Epictetus, Isocrates, Democritus. If you wish to live a life without grief, consider future events as if they have already happened.

Be without grief, not with the apathy of irrational animals; nor with the thoughtlessness of the foolish; but as a virtuous person, having reason as a comfort for grief.

A wise person is one who is not grieved by what he does not have, but rejoices in what he does have.

Whoever in the face of misfortunes are least grieved in thought, but endure most in deed, these are the best of both cities and individuals,

Of Epictetus. Having been asked how one might grieve his enemy, he said, By preparing oneself to do best.

Time releases the foolish from grief; but reason releases the wise.

Posidippus. No one, being human, has lived a life without grief; nor has anyone remained fortunate until the end.

Euripides. It is not possible to find a life without grief in anyone.

DISCOURSE 29.

Concerning sleep. Matt. 26. Mark 14. Luke 24. Jesus, having come, found his disciples

sleeping; for their eyes were heavy, and he says to them, "So, could you not keep watch with me for one hour? And behold Judas, how he does not sleep. Therefore keep watch and pray."

1 Thess. 5. So then, let us not sleep as others do, but let us be watchful and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day, be sober.

Prov. 23. Every drowsy person is clothed with torn and ragged things.

Sirach 31. The care of wakefulness will demand drowsiness.

Of Basil. Give thanks, O man, to the one who involuntarily through sleep releases us from the continuity of our labors, and from a little rest, brings us back again to the peak of our strength.

Of the Theologian. A drowsy man is an inventor of dreams; for sleep is an initiate of phantoms, not of realities.

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∆ημώνακτ. ∆εῖ ὥσπερ φορτίον τήν λύπην ἀνθέμενον, μή στέοντα (στένοντα) φέρειν.

Χαρικλ. Οἱ ἄνθρωποι τάφους μέν κατασκευάζουσι καί ἐντάφια ὡσπερ μέλλοντες αὐτοῖς χρῆσθαι· ἀφοβίαν δέ καί ἀλυπίαν τήν περί τοῦ θανάτου ᾗ χρήσονται, οὐ παρασκευάζονται.

Θεοπόμπ. Εἴ τις πλεῖστα τῶν ἀγαθῶν κεκτημένος μετά τοῦ λυπεῖσθαι διάγει τόν βίον, ἁπάντων ἄν εἴη καί τῶν ὄντων καί τῶν ἐσομένων ἀθλιώτερος.

(880) Ἐκ τῶν Ἐπικτήτου, Ἰσοκράτ, ∆ημοκρ. Εἰ βούλει ἄλυπον βίον ζῇν, τά μέλλοντα συμβαίνειν ὡς ἤδη συμβεβηκότα λογίζου.

Ἄλυπος ἴσθι, μή τήν ἀπάθειαν, ὡς τά ἀλόγια τῶν ζώων· μηδέ τήν ἀλογίαν, ὡς οἱ ἄφρονες· ἀλλ᾿ ὡς ἐνάρετος, τόν λόγον τῆς λύπης ἔχων παραμύθιον.

Εὐγνώμων ὁ μή λυπούμενος ἐν οἷς οὐκ ἔχει, ἀλλά χαίρων ἐφ᾿ οἷς ἔχει.

Ὅσοι τινές πρός τάς συμφοράς, γνώμῃ μέν ἥκιστα λυποῦνται, ἔργῳ δέ μάλιστα ἀντέχουσιν, οὗτοι καί τῶν πόλεων καί ἰδιωτῶν κράτιστοί εἰσιν,

Ἐπικτήτου. Ἐρωτηθείς πῶς ἄν τις τόν ἐχθρόν λυπήσῃ, ἔφη, Ἑαυτόν παρασκευάζων βέλτιστα πράττειν.

Τούς ἄφρονας ὁ χρόνος· τούς δέ φρονίμους ὁ λόγος τῆς λύπης ἀπαλλάττει.

Ποσσιδιπ. Οὐδείς ἄλυπος τόν βίον διήγαγεν, ἄνθρωπος ὤν· οὐδ᾿ ἄχρι τοῦ τέλους ἔμεινεν εὐτυχῶν.

Εὐριπίδ. Οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν βίον ἄλυπον ἐν οὐδενί.

ΛΟΓΟΣ ΚΘ´.

Περί ὕπνου. Ματθ. κς´. Μαρ. ιδ´. Λουκ. κδ´. Ἐλθών ὁ Ἰησοῦς, εὗρε τούς μαθητάς αὐτοῦ

καθεύδοντας· ἦσαν γάρ οἱ ὀφθαλμοί αὐτῶν βεβαρημένοι, καί λέγει αὐτοῖς, Οὕτως οὐκ ἰσχύσατε μίαν ὥραν γρηγορῆσαι μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ. Κἄν τόν Ἰούδαν θεάσαθε πῶς οὐ καθεύδει. Γρηγορεῖτε οὖν καί προσεύχεσθε.

Α΄ . Θεσ. ε´. Ἄρα οὖν μή καθεύδωμεν ὡς καί οἱ λοιποί, ἀλλά γρηγορῶμεν καί νήφωμεν. Οἱ γάρ καθεύδοντες, νυκτός καθεύδουσι· καί οἱ μεθυσκόμενοι, νυκτός μεθύουσιν· ἡμεῖς δέ ἡμέρας ὄντες, νήφωμεν.

Παροιμ. κγ΄.Ἐνδύεται διεῤῥηγμένα καί ῥακώδη,πᾶς ὑπνώδης.

Σιράχ. λα´. Μέριμνα ἀγρυπνίας ἀπαιτήσει νυσταγμόν.

Βασιλείου. Εὐχαρίστει, ἄνθρωπε, τῷ ἀκουσίως ἡμᾶς διά τοῦ ὕπνου τῆς συνεχείας τῶν πόνων λύοντι, καί ἐκ μικρᾶς ἀναπαύσεως, πάλιν πρός τήν ἀκμήν τῆς δυνάμεως ἐπανάγοντι.

Θεολόγου. Ἀνήρ ὑπνώδης, εὑρετῆς ὀνειράτων· μύστης γάρ ὕπνος φασμάτων, οὐ πραγμάτων.