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“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”
― Dialogues and Letters
― Dialogues and Letters
“If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!”
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“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”
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“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
― The Big Book of Ancient Classics: Contains the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Aeschylus...
― The Big Book of Ancient Classics: Contains the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Aeschylus...
“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”
― Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus
― Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus
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