“εἰ συμφέρει μοι ἀγρὸν ἔχειν, συμφέρει μοι ἱμάτιον ἔχειν, συμ…”

“εἰ συμφέρει μοι ἀγρὸν ἔχειν, συμφέρει μοι ἱμάτιον ἔχειν, συμφέρει μοι καὶ κλέψαι αὐτὸ ἐκ βαλανείου. ἔνθεν πόλεμοι, στάσεις, τυραννίδες, ἐπιβουλαί.”

— Epictetus

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Title: Wikiquote: Epictetus
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If it is my interest to have a farm, it is my interest to take it away from my neighbour; if it is my interest to have a cloak, it is my interest also to steal it from a bath. This is the source of wars, seditions, tyrannies, plots.

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

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