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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

by Epictetus

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Thou art but a poor soul laden with a lifeless body.

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The other day I had an iron lamp placed beside my household gods. I heard a noise at the door and on hastening down found my lamp carried off. I reflected that the culprit was in no very strange case. “Tomorrow, my friend,” I said, “you will find an earthenware lamp; for a man can only lose what he has.”

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