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Epictetus·Greek

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Four surviving books (of an original eight) recording Epictetus' lectures and conversations with students. More expansive and personal than the Handbook, full of practical examples and sharp questioning.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? You have been given the principles. What are you waiting for?

You are not a child anymore. If you are careless and lazy and always making excuses, setting one day after another as the day you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress. You will live and die as an ordinary person.

Decide now that you are worthy of living as a grown-up. Let everything you do or say or intend be directed toward that. If you encounter anything difficult or pleasant or glorious or inglorious, remember that the contest is now.

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