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Likely Quotes by Epictetus
- When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that…
- It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
- So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have…
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