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If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and dull with regard to externals.

β€” Epictetus

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The handbook contrasts inner progress with the wish to impress other people.

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Source: The Enchiridion , Section XIII

Edition: Thomas Wentworth Higginson translation Β· Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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