What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher 'What sinews are those' A will undisappointed evils avoided powers daily exercised careful resolutions unerring decisions.Epictetus
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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Silence is safer than speech.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
Epictetus
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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