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Show TwentyFamousMen No. 1 A Slaxc BY THOMAS T AFTER ' 1 ' .1. HF naj; born In QreecA OOOIlt the yeat 50; Von inuv Iblnk this 'was a. Ioiik I tine ;io. 1 1 is 1k a long; tlriAi for a slav.- I.j he i' iih iiiI.' t.I. .'r, pno RnnWii evfcli Ihe name of his father and mother, nor how he rear her l Rome. But he did reAdh t'nart ii. and wu slave boy to n trieiid of NcrO Ihe emperor who njayed lite fiddle while Rome woe bunting. One i-t ihis ultive i"k majttar was iimiiflnK himself bj tnrlating the boy's ii-c Til.- boy. whose nan.' was Fii--loius (Epl.:-te-tU6, four syllables). Kinil .1 and said : ..u will break It." The master gave II one more Lwlal in. i I.. ." how inueh Ihe liy uonlfl stand. "Did I not t.-ll v.ii that you would break n v" So with a broken leg this Biavn boy left Rome ami became a philosopher. philoso-pher. ii When he had settled down to live in a small hilt, with a hi. I and B lamp for furniture, hr began i" lccj ture ( anyone win. cared to listen m philosophy. ,,,fi nrimipai subject was. "Bear and Forbar." All rbiissee of people came i. Iteat him, and af-ter af-ter his ii.-i.th one of his admlrars T'niil over $."aa for his Ittfhp. ti was probably worth 50 nehi. Another f (h. followers f Ihis Slav.- phllocophci wrote his leeturnn bid in 'lt:Jii small books, only four of which remain. These four books, or chdptersj yon can buy In one volume for about 35 .ni- (which Is about what his lamp was worth i. and you Can read some :' tin ni".-' practical directions for Hvinir successfully In the United Stales in the present lime ihat can be fr.iind. ii.'tnc in ii if Benke, hi hook- be. comes h lanrp, for by reudlng n one an BOe how to IIVC A modern writer says the philosophy philoso-phy of Ifiplctetus is of the most prai-tlcaJ prai-tlcaJ character. 1 1 talks always abOul the beat way lo live Wc need that leaching in these days as much, perhaps, us the Romans did. Ho used to tcii his pupils iiiiLt. in come 1" him lor Icssoiif was like i.inir lo a surgeon "You cannot co out sinll-Ins sinll-Ins after ihr Operation; but In pain." in a chapter called ' Tin- Gome of LIfo." he says: "Things ar' .not In my power, hut to will ia in my pow- er It rnay, as ho sni.J, be a little painful lo applj the meaning of Hits. EptctetiiH means that if you urn unhappy un-happy because you want a lot of things and cannol sc-i them, turn to your will power and toll H to make you happy. Ii a l oiiiuioii fliincr in ih-'e .la.- -to si c women w ho buj everything In siir.. tioin motor cars to lovely hale, who are unhappy nevertheless. They ii ,1 the ll.hL of the lamp of-Eplc-tctus. About himself In- says-and this applies to the person who "just loves t.i travel" "Wnetever I co it will he w. II With me, not because of the place, but because of ms opinion about things." This shows a specialist In common sens'.'. in. "Fill up thy hoed and be delivered deliv-ered from slavery," he says I Do wi- need that advice In these davs' I: tin' man w a. aJujH lo 'drink. r.r the woman m Iiq M slave io fashion. . When I ho. :htr"' fH Sh;- 3. il me to : Ilea whifl he preaches, -.3 If this Is Ihe fust liir.e yoi; lH heanJ or Kpieteius, the Greek. 'sB on li.i.'i- found a u-.."'i t'" a.-heti Jl I . hat tH t -Remember this: F Hr wn.s burn a -lave. fll He s n 1 1 1 -1 -a hen Ms uMStfl broke bis leg. His name -y. :HH nearlj nineteen hundred ycarr I t Thr. ..ich, the wonderful artsH writing and printing am ran I idsS read whal he said. I Tnls means that a man ivjfl Jived '-'OOO : a afto r:v. InfluenB today. 'H C. That is. be fan tariuencs yfl if - "ii want to he influenced. -iBJ |