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Quotation from The Discourses by Epictetus
“Nothing great, said Epictetus, is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is”
The Discourses, Book I, Ch. 15, trans. George Long (1877)
Answer to a man who wants at once to know how to keep his composure while his brother remains unreconciled.
Citation: "Nothing great, said Epictetus, is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is" — Epictetus, The Discourses, Book I, Ch. 15, trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-q4)
