Epictetus — "You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endor…"

You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.
Epictetus — Epictetus Ancient · Stoic philosopher, former slave

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Date: c. 1st-2nd Century AD

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