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No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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by Epictetus Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Philosophy)
That was a good reply which Diogenes made to a man who asked him for letters of recommendation: that you are a man, he will know when he sees you; whether a good or bad one, he will know if he has any skill in discerning the good or bad. But if he has none, he will never know, though I write him a thousand times.
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The reason why I lost my lamp was that the thief was superior to me in vigilance. He paid however this price for the lamp, that in exchange for it he consented to become a thief: in exchange for it, to become faithless.
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It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.
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Shall I show you the muscular training of a philosopher? "What muscles are those?" A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.
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