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If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.1 Be satisfied then in every thing with being a philosopher; and if you wish to seem also to any person to be a philosopher, appear so to yourself, and you will be able to do this.


1 If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.' Gal. i. 10. Mrs. Carter.

The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheridion and Fragments. Epictetus. George Long. translator. London. George Bell and Sons. 1890.

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