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Discourses, "What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man is" (§4)

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Every great power (faculty) is dangerous to beginners. You must then bear such things as you are able, but conformably to nature: but not ... Practise sometimes a way of living like a person out of health that you may at some time live like a man in health.
Epictetus·Discourses, "What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man is" (§4)·trans. Long
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