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Epictetus - The Enchiridion Pt. 2

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

Are You a Wrestler?

In every affair consider what precedes and follows, and then undertake it. Otherwise you will begin with spirit, but not having thought of the consequences. You too will be at one time a wrestler, at another a gladiator, now a philosopher, then an orator, but with your whole soul, nothing at all. Like an ape, you mimic all you see, and one thing after another is sure to please you, but is out of favor as soon as it becomes familiar.

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