Paconius Agrippinus

I'm telling you because of the question behind it.

How often do you keep quiet about what's right because you're afraid of losing your comfort? How often do you let something wrong slide at work, in your family, among your friends because speaking up might cost you something? The second man was called Paconius Agrippinus.

Epictetus told two scenes about him that say it all.

In the first, an acquaintance, Florus, was wondering whether to take part in some festivities Nero was putting on where noblemen had to perform in public to please the emperor, something considered humiliating.

When then have I told you that my head alone cannot be cut off? These are the things which philosophers should meditate on, which they should write daily, in which they should exercise themselves.

What then did Agrippinus say? He said, I am not a hindrance to myself.

When it was reported to him that his trial was going on in the Senate, he said, I hope it may turn out well, but it is the fifth hour of the day.

This was the time when he was used to exercise himself and then take the cold bath.