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Discourses, "That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil" (§3)

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When then shall I see Athens again and the Acropolis? Wretch, are you not content with what you see daily? Have you anything better or greater to see than the sun, the moon, the stars, the whole earth, the sea? But if indeed you comprehend Him who administers the whole, and carry him about in yourself, do you still desire small stones and a beautiful rock?
Epictetus·Discourses, "That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil" (§3)·trans. Long
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