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" "Do your own useful work without regard to the honor or admiration your efforts might win from others. There is no such thing as vicarious merit.
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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