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• Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little thing
  and thence proceed to greater. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xviii...
• He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vii, Line 143...
• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• For what constitutes a child?--Ignorance. What constitutes a child?
  Want of instruction; for they are our equals so far as their degree of knowledge permits....
• Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions,--as the habit of walking, by walking
  of running, by running. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- How the Semblances of Things are to be combated, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Chap. xvi...
• Whatever you would make habitual, practise it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practise it, but habituate yourself to something else.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- How the Semblances of Things are to be combated, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• Be not hurried away by excitement, but say, "Semblance, wait for me a little.
  Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you....
• When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
  What would you have, O man? -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...