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Two rules we should always have ready,—that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
Two rules we should always have ready,—that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
Approximate author period: c. 60 AD · classical
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- Epictetus
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