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I can only suppose that you weigh all those negatives against the worth of the show, and choose, in the end, to be patient and put up with it all. - Epictetus
" "I can only suppose that you weigh all those negatives against the worth of the show, and choose, in the end, to be patient and put up with it all.
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Epictetus (c. 55 – c. 135 AD), born a slave, was a Greek Stoic philosopher. His words were recorded by his student Arrian in the Discourses and Enchiridion written in the early 2nd-century.
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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It is one thing to put bread and wine away in a store-room, and quite another to eat them. What is eaten is digested and distributed around the body, to become sinews, flesh, bones, blood, a good complexion, sound breathing. What is stored away is ready at hand, to be sure, to be taken out and displayed whenever you wish, but you derive no benefit from it, except that of having the reputation of possessing it.
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