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George Long, 1877

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What is the product of virtue? Tranquillity. Who then makes improvement? Is it he who has read many books of Chrysippus?

George Long, 1877 · Discourses, “Of progress or improvement”

Nothing great, said Epictetus, is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is.

George Long, 1877 · Discourses, “What philosophy promises”

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

George Long, 1877 · Discourses, “How we should struggle with circumstances”

For, to speak plainly, whatever the external thing may be, the value which we set upon it places us in subjection to others.

George Long, 1877 · Discourses, “To those who are desirous of passing life in tranquillity”

Today I choose to play. Well then, ought you not to play with attention? I choose to sing. What then hinders you from doing so with attention? Is there any part of life excepted, to which attention does not extend?

George Long, 1877 · Discourses, “On attention”

Who then chooses to live in error? No man. Who chooses to live deceived, liable to mistake, unjust, unrestrained, discontented, mean? No man.

George Long, 1877 · Discourses, “About freedom”

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