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Epictetus - The Enchiridion - 13
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The Enchiridion
13. If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish
and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be
thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be
somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is
difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state
conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external
things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of
necessity neglect the other.