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• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Courage, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix...
• 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...
• 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....
• Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...
• Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- That Courage is not inconsistent with Caution, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. i...
• It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Courage, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix...
• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable
  but everything reasonable may be supported. -- Epictetus (c....