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«Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.»
«First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Communication
«Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Adversity,
Difficulty,
God
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Against A, antagonist, antagonists, conqueror, in case, pitted, toil
«It is difficulties that show what men are»
«It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.»
«Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak»
«Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.»
«A child understands fear and the hurt and hate it brings.»
«Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?»
«I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.»
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