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... SEEK PREFERMENT AT ROME . • XI . OF NATURAL AFFECTION XII . OF CONTENTMENT XIII . How EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE • 41 GODS . . . • · • • XIV . THAT THE DEITY OVERSEES ALL THINGS XV . WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES • . XVI . OF ...
... SEEK PREFERMENT AT ROME . • XI . OF NATURAL AFFECTION XII . OF CONTENTMENT XIII . How EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE • 41 GODS . . . • · • • XIV . THAT THE DEITY OVERSEES ALL THINGS XV . WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES • . XVI . OF ...
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... youth in great corrup- tion and filled with wickedness , and so when they seek after virtue they require more discipline or practice . Ac-- cordingly he views philosophy as a spiritual medicine , and b 2 THE PHILOSOPHY OF EPICTETUS . xis.
... youth in great corrup- tion and filled with wickedness , and so when they seek after virtue they require more discipline or practice . Ac-- cordingly he views philosophy as a spiritual medicine , and b 2 THE PHILOSOPHY OF EPICTETUS . xis.
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... seek for good here . " ( Compare iv . c . 1 p . 303 , and note 20. ) Here the philosopher teaches that a man's opinion or his belief cannot be compelled by another , though we may conclude from what we see and hear and is done in the ...
... seek for good here . " ( Compare iv . c . 1 p . 303 , and note 20. ) Here the philosopher teaches that a man's opinion or his belief cannot be compelled by another , though we may conclude from what we see and hear and is done in the ...
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... seeking the substance of good and evil where it is not ; but where it is , they never think . The Cynic is supposed to say , How is it possible that a man like himself , who is houseless and has nothing can live happily ? The answer is ...
... seeking the substance of good and evil where it is not ; but where it is , they never think . The Cynic is supposed to say , How is it possible that a man like himself , who is houseless and has nothing can live happily ? The answer is ...
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... seek progress in other things and make a dis- play of it ? What is the product of virtue ? Tranquillity . Who then makes improvement ? Is it he who has read many books of Chrysippus ? 3 But does virtue consist in having understood ...
... seek progress in other things and make a dis- play of it ? What is the product of virtue ? Tranquillity . Who then makes improvement ? Is it he who has read many books of Chrysippus ? 3 But does virtue consist in having understood ...
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