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Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Approximate author period: c. 50 AD · classical
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- Epictetus
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- Approximate author period: c. 50 AD · classical
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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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