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• 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...
• 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...
• Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xx...
• Difficulties are things that show what men are. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxiv...
• Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xii...
• Shall I show you the muscular training of a philosopher?
  What muscles are those?"--A will undisappointed; evils avoided...
• 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....
• Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little thing
  and thence proceed to greater. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xviii...
• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable
  but everything reasonable may be supported. -- Epictetus (c....