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Epictetus for the Day |
| If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought as knowing anything, and even if you appear to be someone important to others, distrust this appearance. For it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature and at the same time acquire external things. So, if you aspire to a higher life, you must of necessity neglect the external things. |
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The Enchiridion (13), 135 C.E. |
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