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Than Quotes by Epictetus
- Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Silence is safer than speech.
- He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
- No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig,…
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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