When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus
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- We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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