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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Epictetus

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Epictetus
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Epictetus of Hierapolis
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What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
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These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
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