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Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.

Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.

Approximate author period: c. 60 AD · classical

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Epictetus
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Approximate author period: c. 60 AD · classical
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

How the Semblances of Things are to be combated. Chap. xviii.

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Epictetus: 1715 frontispiece; an imagined later likeness

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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