Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Epictetus
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men, ' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich! ’.
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Epictetus
Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is...
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Epictetus
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body
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Anonymous
