The
carpenter does not come and say, "Hear me discourse on carpentry," but he undertakes a contract and builds a house and so shows that he
has acquired the art. Do you likewise: eat as a man, drink as a man,
adorn yourself, marry, get children, live a citizen's life; endure
revilings, bear with an inconsiderate brother, bear with a father, a
son, a traveling companion. Show us that you can do this, and then we
shall see that you have in truth learnt something from the
philosophers.
---Epictetus---
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