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... avoiding errois such as any translator may make . A man who has not attempted to translate a Greek or Latin author does not know the difficulty of the undertaking . That which may appear plain when he reads , often becomes very ...
... avoiding errois such as any translator may make . A man who has not attempted to translate a Greek or Latin author does not know the difficulty of the undertaking . That which may appear plain when he reads , often becomes very ...
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... avoid being affected in the way that Epictetus wished him to be . But if the Discourses themselves , as they are written , do not effect this result , it may be that the fault is mine , or , it may be , that the thing is unavoidable ...
... avoid being affected in the way that Epictetus wished him to be . But if the Discourses themselves , as they are written , do not effect this result , it may be that the fault is mine , or , it may be , that the thing is unavoidable ...
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... avoiding it , and the faculty of desire and aversion , and , in a word , the faculty of using the appearances of ... avoid- ance , and of desire and aversion , and even the faculty of using appearances , belong to animals as well as ...
... avoiding it , and the faculty of desire and aversion , and , in a word , the faculty of using the appearances of ... avoid- ance , and of desire and aversion , and even the faculty of using appearances , belong to animals as well as ...
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... avoid . I must die . If now , I am ready to die . If , after a short time , I now dine because it is the dinner - hour ; after this I will then die . How ? Like a man who gives up 15 what belongs to another . in the time of the Emperor ...
... avoid . I must die . If now , I am ready to die . If , after a short time , I now dine because it is the dinner - hour ; after this I will then die . How ? Like a man who gives up 15 what belongs to another . in the time of the Emperor ...
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... avoid ; such a man takes from himself desire altogether and defers it , 2 but he employs his aversion only on things which are de- pendent on his will . For if he attempts to avoid anything independent of his will , he knows that ...
... avoid ; such a man takes from himself desire altogether and defers it , 2 but he employs his aversion only on things which are de- pendent on his will . For if he attempts to avoid anything independent of his will , he knows that ...
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