Você deve se submeter à disciplina, comer de acordo, não tocar em doces, treinar debaixo de rigores, numa hora fixa, no calor e no frio, não beber ág… - Epictetus

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Você deve se submeter à disciplina, comer de acordo, não tocar em doces, treinar debaixo de rigores, numa hora fixa, no calor e no frio, não beber água muito gelada, nem vinho, a não ser quando receber a ordem de fazer isso; você deve se entregar completamente ao seu treinador assim como o faria com o seu médico e depois, quando chega a hora da competição, você deve se arriscar a se machucar e algumas vezes ter a sua mão deslocada, torcer o tornozelo, engolir um bocado de areia, algumas vezes ser fustigado, e junto com isso tudo, ser derrotado. Quando você considerou tudo isto muito bem, então ingresse numa trajetória de atleta, se você ainda o desejar.

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About Epictetus

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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But prove to me that one who holds inferior judgments can prevail over a man who is superior in his judgments. You never will prove it, nor anything like it; for the law of nature and of god is this: Let the better always be superior to the worse… Thus I, too, lost my lamp to a thief because the thief was better at keeping awake than I. But he bought a lamp at the price of being a thief, a rogue, and a brute. That seemed to him a good bargain.
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Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

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