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• 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...
• Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning a Person whom he treated with Disregard, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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...
• In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That Everything is to be undertaken with Circumspection, -- Discourses, Book iii, 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....
• 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...