If you are going to write, be content to be unlearned. If you are going to wrestle, be content to be beaten. For if you are not content with these things, you will not write, nor will you wrestle.

Stoic philosopher, former slave

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Discourses, Book 3, Chapter 24

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c. 108 AD

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Shocking

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