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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

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Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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If you would be a reader, read if a writer, write.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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