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.

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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

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