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“[28] That’s what occupies a few, who spend all their spare time seeing and learning as much as they can about the festival before the time comes to get up and leave. [29] Naturally, they are laughed at by the majority; much the way those who make money at the games laugh at those who are only there to watch. And I suppose if cattle had opinions, they would make fun of anyone interested in anything besides the grass!”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“We take pity on the blind and lame, why don’t we pity people who are blind and lame in respect of what matters most?”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Dogs that bark don’t bite.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“[24] ‘Then how are some externals said to be in accordance with nature, others contrary to nature?’18 That only applies to us considered separately. I agree that for my foot it is in accordance with its nature to be clean; but considered as a foot and not separately, it is right and proper for it to tramp through mud, step on needles – there may even be a time when it will have to be amputated for the sake of the body as a whole. It wouldn’t be a foot otherwise.”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
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