If you have assumed any character beyond your
strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that,
and quitted one which you might have supported.
The Works of Epictetus: His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Epictetus. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. translator. New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.
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