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Discourses, "That Confidence Courage is Not Inconsistent with Caution" (§3)

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Confidence (courage) then ought to be employed against death, and caution against the fear of death. But now we do the contrary, and employ against death the attempt to escape; and to our opinion about it we employ carelessness, rashness, and indifference.
Epictetus·Discourses, "That Confidence Courage is Not Inconsistent with Caution" (§3)·trans. Long
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