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Quotation from The Discourses by Epictetus

“If then you wish not to be of an angry temper, do not feed the habit”

Epictetus

The Discourses, Book II, Ch. 18, trans. George Long (1877)

Part of an account of how passions grow with repetition, compared with the traces left by an incompletely cured fever.

Citation: "If then you wish not to be of an angry temper, do not feed the habit" — Epictetus, The Discourses, Book II, Ch. 18, trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-q8)

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