There is petrifaction of the understanding; and also of the sense of shame. This happens when a man obstinately refuses to acknowledge plain truths, and persists in maintaining what is self-contradictory.
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Citations by Epictetus
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Habit)
Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, --as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.
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Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
We are not destroyed by things themselves but by the opinions that we have of things.
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