“τίνες εἰσὶν οὗτοι, ὑφ᾿ ὧν εἴωθας λέγειν ὅτι μαίνονται; τί οὖ…”

“τίνες εἰσὶν οὗτοι, ὑφ᾿ ὧν εἴωθας λέγειν ὅτι μαίνονται; τί οὖν; ὑπὸ τῶν μαινομένων θαυμάζεσθαι θέλεις;”

— Epictetus

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Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these about whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

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Epictetus. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Epictetus. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Epictetus

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