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It Is Not Reasonings That Are Wanted Now; For There Are Books Stuffed Full Of Stoical Reasonings.
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It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed
full of stoical reasonings.
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD)
-- Of Courage,
-- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix
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The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
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Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall. -- Epictetus (c.
60 AD) -- That Courage is not inconsistent with Caution, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. i...
Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xii...
For what constitutes a child?--Ignorance. What constitutes a child?
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xx...
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable
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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...