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Discourses, "That Confidence Courage is Not Inconsistent with Caution" (§2)

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We are then in the condition of deer; when they flee from the huntsmen’s feathers in fright, whither do they turn and in what do they seek refuge as safe? They turn to the nets, and thus they perish by confounding things which are objects of fear with things that they ought not to fear.
Epictetus·Discourses, "That Confidence Courage is Not Inconsistent with Caution" (§2)·trans. Long
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