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Quotation from The Discourses by Epictetus
“The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain”
The Discourses, Book III, Ch. 23, trans. George Long (1877)
Against lecturers who read and discourse for display; students arrive with dislocated shoulders and abscesses of the soul and should leave treated, not entertained.
Citation: "The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain" — Epictetus, The Discourses, Book III, Ch. 23, trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-q10)
