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Epictitus - The Enchiridion

Don't, therefore, bring either desire or

           aversion with you to the diviner (else you will approach him

           trembling), but first acquire a distinct knowledge that every

           event is indifferent and nothing to you, of whatever sort it

           may be, for it will be in your power to make a right use of

           it, and this no one can hinder; then come with confidence to

           the gods, as your counselors, and afterwards, when any counsel

           is given you, remember what counselors you have assumed, and

           whose advice you will neglect if you disobey. Come to

           divination as Socrates prescribed, in cases of which the

           whole consideration relates to the event, and in which no

           opportunities are afforded by reason, or any other art, to

           discover the thing proposed to be learned.