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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...
• 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....
• 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....
• Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day
  ow every other day; then every third and fourth day...
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning such as read and dispute ostentatiously, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning the Epicureans, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xx...
• The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- How Nobleness of Mind may be consistent with Prudence, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...
• 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...