Epictetus — "Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to t…"

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think more accurately, to be less of a slave to your passions, to be more tranquil and self-possessed. Speeches are one thing, life another.
Epictetus — Epictetus Ancient · Stoic philosopher, former slave

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Discourses, Book IV, Chapter 4

Date: c. 108 AD

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