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• There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,--that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of the Cynic Philosophy, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap. xxii...
• Philosophy is the root of all things.
• Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion, and the discovery of a standard of judgment.
  -- Epictetu...
• If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxv...
• You may be redneck... if all of your four-letter words are two syllables.
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• Yes, the philosophy of 'none,' meaning 'all.'
• Abstain from beans.
• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all
  idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names....