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This, then, we should practice and cultivate first of all, like the man who threw a stone at his dog, but missed her and hit his stepmother, whereupon he exclaimed, Not so bad after all! Cf. Moralia, 147 c. For it is possible to change the direction of Fortune when she has given us things we do not wish. Diogenes Cf. Diogenes Laertius, vi. 21. was driven into exile: Not so bad after all! for after his exile he began to lead the life of a philosopher. Zeno Ibid. vii. 5; Cf. also Moralia, 87 a, 603 d; Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi, xiv. 3; Crates, Frag. 21 A (Edmonds, Elegy and Iambus, vol. ii. p. 66). of Citium had one merchantman remaining; when he learned that this had been sunk at sea and lost with all its cargo, he cried, Much obliged, Fortune! You also drive me to the philosopher’s cloak. In the mss. the words and the Stoa follow. F. H. Sandbach, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Nov. 7, 1929, has shown that these words are interpolated by someone, who, seeing that τὸν τρίβωνα means the cynic’s cloak, thought to air his knowledge that Zeno was not a Cynic but a Stoic. If Zeno had made the remark our mss. credit him with, it would be remarkable prescience on the part of the beginning in philosophy, who was to spend many years as a pupil first of the Cynic Crates and then of other philosophers before starting his own school in the Stoa!
