“τί γάρ ἐστι παιδίον; ἄγνοια. τί ἐστι παιδίον; ἀμαθία. ἐπεὶ ὅπου οἶδεν, κἀκεῖνα οὐδὲν ἡμῶν ἔλαττον ἔχει.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Epictetus
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
For what is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction. For where a child has knowledge, he is no worse than we are.
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Epictetus. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Epictetus. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Epictetus
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