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Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern.
Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern.
Approximate author period: c. 50 AD · classical
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- Epictetus
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- Approximate author period: c. 50 AD · classical
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 50; activity date not established; Wikidata Q183144, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183144 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Duty · anthology attribution: Epictetus
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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