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• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Courage, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix...
• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• 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...
• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable
  but everything reasonable may be supported. -- Epictetus (c....
• 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....
• Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
  -- 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...
• 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...
• Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning the Epicureans, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xx...