Choose to be either free or a slave, enlightened or a fool, a thoroughbred or a nag. Either resign yourself to a life of abuse till you die, or escape it immediately. For God's sake, don't put up with years of abuse, and then change your mind! This humiliation can be avoided before it begins: just decide now what you think is truly good and bad.
— Epictetus Ancient

Stoic philosopher, former slave

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Discourses, Book 2, On Tranquility (2.2)

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c. 1st-2nd Century AD

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