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Discourses, "That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher" (§2)

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For this reason philosophers admonish us not to be satisfied with learning only, but also to add study, and then practice. For we have long been accustomed to do contrary things, and we put in practice opinions which are contrary to true opinions.
Epictetus·Discourses, "That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher" (§2)·trans. Long
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