Let death and exile and every other thing which appears
dreadful be daily before your eyes; but most of all death:
and you will never think of any thing mean nor will you
desire any thing extravagantly.
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The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheridion and Fragments. Epictetus. George Long. translator. London. George Bell and Sons. 1890.
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