Epictetus addressed himself to his hearers in a continuous … - George Long

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Epictetus addressed himself to his hearers in a continuous discourse and in a familiar and simple manner. Antoninus wrote down his reflections for his own use only, in short unconnected paragraphs, which are often obscure.

George Long

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George Long (November 4, 1800 – August 10, 1879) was an English classical scholar, historian and translator. Among other works, he translated of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (1862), the Discourses of Epictetus (1877), Plutarch's Lives (1844–1848) and was the author of the Decline of the Roman Republic (1864–1874), the Civil Wars of Rome, and the Summary of Herodotus (1829).

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Alternative Names: Long, George, 1800-1879 • Long, George, 1800–1879

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Real learning... is a thing in which the learner is not a receiver only of words written or spoken: he must be a doer.

It is an undoubted truth that, if a thing is not learned well, there is more harm done than good acquired.

He [Marcus Aurelius] has doubts perhaps sometimes even about that to which he holds most firmly. There are only a few passages of this kind, but they are evidence of the struggles which even the noblest of the sons of men had to maintain against the hard realities of his daily life.

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