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• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That we ought not to be angry with Mankind, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap....
• Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xx...
• Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little thing
  and thence proceed to greater. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xviii...
• 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....
• If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxv...
• 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...
• Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xii...
• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Courage, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix...