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• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone
  but God is within, and your genius is within,--and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?...
• Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you
  for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them....
• But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradic
  you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. -- Plato -- Symposium...
• Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne
  another by which it cannot. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Enchiridion, xliii...
• There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Inconsistency, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xxi...
• Shall I show you the muscular training of a philosopher?
  What muscles are those?"--A will undisappointed; evils avoided...
• Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget.
• Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror.
  Kill all and you are a God. -- Jean Rostand...