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... blame , you will not flatter any person " ( i . c . 1 ) . He says ( iv . c . 12 ) that God " has placed me with myself , and has put my will in obedience to myself alone , and has given me rules for the right use of it . " The word of ...
... blame , you will not flatter any person " ( i . c . 1 ) . He says ( iv . c . 12 ) that God " has placed me with myself , and has put my will in obedience to myself alone , and has given me rules for the right use of it . " The word of ...
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... blamed for it even by modern theologians , who are not always free from this fault themselves . If there is any arrogance or apparent arrogance in Epictetus , he did not teach it , for he has especially warned us against this fault , as ...
... blamed for it even by modern theologians , who are not always free from this fault themselves . If there is any arrogance or apparent arrogance in Epictetus , he did not teach it , for he has especially warned us against this fault , as ...
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... blame , you will not flatter any person . Well , do these seem to you small matters ? I hope not . Be content with them then and pray to the gods . But now when it is in our power to look after one thing , and to attach ourselves to it ...
... blame , you will not flatter any person . Well , do these seem to you small matters ? I hope not . Be content with them then and pray to the gods . But now when it is in our power to look after one thing , and to attach ourselves to it ...
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... blame the gods . For what is the consequence of such meanness of spirit but impiety ? 10 And yet God has not only given us these faculties ; by which we shall be able to bear every- thing that happens without being depressed or broken ...
... blame the gods . For what is the consequence of such meanness of spirit but impiety ? 10 And yet God has not only given us these faculties ; by which we shall be able to bear every- thing that happens without being depressed or broken ...
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... blamed me for not having dis- covered the one thing omitted in a certain syllogism : I suppose , I said , that I have burnt the Capitol . Slave , he replied , was the thing omitted here the Capitol ? Or are these the only crimes , to ...
... blamed me for not having dis- covered the one thing omitted in a certain syllogism : I suppose , I said , that I have burnt the Capitol . Slave , he replied , was the thing omitted here the Capitol ? Or are these the only crimes , to ...
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