For you will learn by experience that it’s true: the things… - Epictetus

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For you will learn by experience that it’s true: the things that men admire and work so hard to get prove useless to them once they’re theirs.

Epictetus

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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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Native Name: ΕΠΙΚΤΗΤΟΣ

Alternative Names: Epictetus of Hierapolis • Epiktetos

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distinguish between your own and not your own, the things which are in your power and not in your power,

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For you will learn by experience that it’s true: the things that men admire and work so hard to get prove useless to them once they’re theirs. - Epictetus

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